- long
pharyngeal bone in the throat,
containing a
single row of teeth.
Catostomids are most
often found in rivers, but can be
found in any
freshwater environment...
- fuller-bodied appearance. However, the
quillback is not a carp.
Quillback are
catostomids, and like all catstomids, they do not have
barbels around the mouth....
- they are
roughly 60
million years old.
During the
Eocene (55–35 Mya),
catostomids and
cyprinids spread throughout Asia; the
earliest members of the cyprinid...
- carp (Cyprinus carpio), but an easy and
notable difference is that all
catostomids lack the
characteristic barbels of carp, and carp are not
native to North...
- (Myxocyprinus asiaticus),
better known as the
Chinese high fin
banded shark, a
catostomid sometimes kept in
aquariums and
aquaculture Members of the
genus Halieutaea...
- with age, and in some rare individuals, white-edged fins. Like
other catostomids it has a long
dorsal fin, but
unlike all
other extant species it has...
-
growth rate of the
Modoc sucker is
comparable to that of
other California catostomid. The age and
growth of
Modoc suckers are
typically ****essed
using three...
- Juan,
TSENG Zhijie J.,
WILSON Mark V.,
MURRAY Alison M. -
ASIAN FOSSIL CATOSTOMIDS AND
ONTOGENETC CHANGE IN
EARLY CYPRINIFORMS Specific Liu, Juan; Chang...
-
including gars, bowfin, buffalofishes, carpsuckers, redhorse,
several other catostomids species,
freshwater drum, hiodontids, paddlefish, bullheads, and catfish...
- Two
mouth characteristics separate the
harelip sucker from all
other catostomids: a
nonprotractile upper lip and a
lower lip that is
divided into two...
