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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Ray-finned Fishes
  5. Minnows, Suckers, Carps, and Loaches
  6. Suckers
  7. Catostominae
  8. Mountain Suckers

genus

Mountain Suckers

Pantosteus

Includes
3 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

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  • Desert Sucker native
  • Mountain Sucker native
  • Santa Ana Sucker native
  • Plains Sucker
  • Rio Grande Sucker presumed native
  • Bluehead Sucker native
  • Green Sucker native
  • Lahontan Sucker
  • Cordilleran Sucker

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native mountain suckers All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Desert Sucker Pantosteus clarkii 236 observations
  • Mountain Sucker Pantosteus platyrhynchus 110 observations
  • Santa Ana Sucker Pantosteus santaanae 57 observations
  • Bluehead Sucker Pantosteus discobolus 39 observations
  • Green Sucker Pantosteus virescens 20 observations

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