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Catostomidae
Black redhorse
Moxostoma duquesnei
Fifty One Centimeters Catostomid Fish of North American Waters
- Black
- Red
- Temperate
- Lower river
- Upper river
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- North America
- West Asia
- Fusiform
- Large
- Temperate fish
Black
Temperate
Regional distribution
Fusiform
LargeThe black redhorse (Moxostoma duquesnei, also duquesnii, duquesni) is a species of freshwater fish endemic to Ontario and the eastern half of the United States, where it lives in streams and small to medium rivers. A bottom-feeder, it feeds on microcrustaceans, aquatic insects, detritus, and algae. The black redhorse spawns in the spring.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Catostomidae
- Genus
- Moxostoma
- Maximum length
- 51 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- North America: lower Great Lakes and Mississippi River basin from Ontario in Canada and from New York to southeastern Minnesota in USA and south to northern Alabama and eastern Oklahoma, USA; upper and middle Mobile Bay drainage in Georgia, Alabama and southeastern Tennessee in USA.
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