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Mountain Suckers

Pantosteus

Pantosteus, the mountain suckers, is a genus of North American freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Catostomidae. Long treated as a subgenus of Catostomus, phylogenetic evidence has found them to a form a monophyletic group that diverged from other members of Catostomus during the Miocene, and they are thus treated better as a distinct genus.

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11 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 11 known species

Desert Sucker

speciesPantosteus clarkii

Mountain Sucker

speciesPantosteus platyrhynchus

Santa Ana Sucker

speciesPantosteus santaanae

Plains Sucker

speciesPantosteus jordani

Rio Grande Sucker

speciesPantosteus plebeius

Bluehead Sucker

speciesPantosteus discobolus

Green Sucker

speciesPantosteus virescens

Nazas Sucker

speciesPantosteus nebuliferus

Cordilleran Sucker

speciesPantosteus bondi

Lahontan Sucker

speciesPantosteus lahontan

Zuni Bluehead sucker

speciesPantosteus jarrovii

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