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Catostomidae
Highfin carpsucker
Carpiodes velifer
Fifty One Point Four Centimeters Carp from the Atlantic Ocean
- Temperate
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- North America
- Fusiform
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
LargeHighfin carpsucker is a freshwater fish found around North America. It inhabits freshwater habitats. The largest recorded length is 51.4 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Catostomidae
- Genus
- Carpiodes
- Maximum length
- 51.4 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- North America: Lake Michigan drainage and Mississippi River basin from Pennsylvania to Minnesota and South Dakota and south to Louisiana, USA; Atlantic Slope in Cape Fear and Santee River drainages in North Carolina, USA; Gulf Slope drainages from Choctawhatchee River to Pearl River in USA.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
