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Catostomidae
Spotted sucker
Minytrema melanops
Scale spots form dark stripes
- Tropical
- Lower river
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- North America
- Fusiform
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
MediumSpotted sucker is a freshwater fish from North America. It inhabits freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 50 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Catostomidae
- Genus
- Minytrema
- Maximum length
- 50 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- North America: lower Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins from Pennsylvania to Minnesota in the USA and south to Gulf; Atlantic and Gulf Slope drainages from Cape Fear River in North Carolina to Colorado River in Texas, USA (absent from most of peninsular Florida).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
