🦋 Family

Catostomidae

27 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › › Cypriniformes › Catostomidae

Ictiobus bubalus (Rafinesque, 1818)

Ictiobus bubalus, the smallmouth buffalo, is a hardy freshwater fish with a characteristic stocky, humped build, described here with its preferred habitat.

Ictiobus cyprinellus (Valenciennes, 1844)

Bigmouth buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus) is an extremely long-lived declining North American freshwater sucker.

Ictiobus niger (Rafinesque, 1819)

Ictiobus niger, the black buffalo, is a long-lived North American freshwater sucker found in the Mississippi Basin and southern Great Lakes.

Related Families

Cyprinidae 183 species Cobitidae 7 species Nemacheilidae 3 species Gyrinocheilidae 1 species

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