- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
-
found in
Mexico and Guatemala.
Buffalofish are not carp, nor is any
other catostomid; they
belong to
different scientific families having evolved on separate...
- are long-lived (lifespans
greater than 20 years), much like many
other catostomid species. The
silver redhorse is the longest-lived
redhorse known by nearly...
- The V-lip
redhorse (Moxostoma pappillosum) is a
species of
freshwater catostomid fish from
Eastern North America. It
inhabits drainages on the Atlantic...
- Juan,
TSENG Zhijie J.,
WILSON Mark V.,
MURRAY Alison M. -
ASIAN FOSSIL CATOSTOMIDS AND
ONTOGENETC CHANGE IN
EARLY CYPRINIFORMS Specific Liu, Juan; Chang...
-
Early development of M.
melanops is
quite similar to that of
other catostomids.
Larvae can be
identified by fin ray counts,
myomere counts, and pigmentation...
- The
greater jumprock (Moxostoma lachneri) is a
riverine species of
catostomid fish
native to
Georgia and
Alabama in
North America. The
world record for...
