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Photos - Freshwater Fish - Suckers
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Family Catostomidae
| Genus Carpiodes Quillback, Carpsucker |
Genus Cycleptus Blue sucker |
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| Genus Ictiobus Smallmouth buffalo, Bigmouth buffalo |
Genus Minytrema Spotted sucker, White sucker |
Genus Moxotsoma
Black Redhorse, Golden Redhorse |
 Quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus) |
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 Blue sucker (Cycleptus elongatus) |
 White Sucker (Catostomus commersonii) |
 White Sucker - Mouth inferior with fleshy, pappilose lips |
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 Smallmouth buffalo mouth - inferior |
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 Bigmouth buffalo mouth - terminal |
Genus Minytrema
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 Spotted sucker - mouth inferior with thin, plicate lips |
 Golden Redhorse (Mosostoma erythrurum) |
 Golden Redhorse - Mouth inferior with plicate lips that form a U- shape posteriorly |
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Photo credits: All Digital Photographs by Jeff Grabarkiewicz, Wayne Davis, and Todd Crail. Many of these photos were taken at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston, the New Jersey Aquarium, and the Aquatic Visitors Center at South Bass Island, Ohio. Feel free to use these photographs on any of your government, citizen or not-for-profit Web sites. Please credit this Web site page and acknowledge the name of the photographer in the alt tag. Please email us if you need higher resolution photos or permissions for other purposes. Learn more about fish as environmental indicators.