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The Shortnose Sucker (Chasmistes brevirostris) is an imperiled, long-lived freshwater fish endemic to the Upper Klamath River Basin of southern Oregon and northern California. Known to the indigenous Klamath and Modoc peoples as ‘c’waam’, this...
Fish > Suckerfishes & Loaches
The June Sucker (Chasmistes liorus) is an endangered, long-lived lake sucker found naturally nowhere else on Earth outside Utah Lake in central Utah. Named for its historic mass spawning runs that occurred every June up the Provo River, it is an extraordinary midwater...
Fish > Suckerfishes & Loaches
The Robust Redhorse (Moxostoma robustum) is a magnificent, heavy-bodied freshwater sucker that represents one of the most famous rediscovery stories in modern American ichthyology. Originally described in 1869 by Edward Drinker Cope, it was thought completely extinct...
Fish > Suckerfishes & Loaches
The Flannelmouth Sucker (Catostomus latipinnis) is an iconic native big-river fish of the Colorado River system, famed for navigating the roaring whitewater rapids and deep desert canyons of the American West. It takes its descriptive common name from its enormous,...
Fish > Suckerfishes & Loaches
The Cui-ui (Chasmistes cujus) is a large, prehistoric-looking lake sucker endemic exclusively to the alkaline waters of Pyramid Lake in the Great Basin of Nevada. A sacred species of supreme cultural and historical significance to the Kooyooe Tukadu (Cui-ui Eaters)...
