Animalia > Chordata > Cypriniformes > Catostomidae > Ictiobus > Ictiobus cyprinellusIctiobus cyprinellus (Buffalofish; Bigmouth buffalo)Synonyms: Ichthyobus rauchii; Ichthyobus stolleyi; Ictiobus cyprinella; Sclerognathus cyprinella Language: Czech; Danish; Finnish; French; Mandarin Chinese; Romanian; Russian; Swedish The bigmouth buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus) also known as the gourd head, redmouth buffalo, buffalo fish, bernard buffalo, roundhead, or brown buffalo, is a large species of the Catostomidae or "sucker" family. The bigmouth buffalo is a dull brownish olive color with dusky fins. Like other suckers it has a long dorsal fin, but unlike others it has a large oblique and terminal mouth. It is the largest of the buffalo fish and reaches a length of more than 4 ft (1.2 m) and 65 lb (29 kg) in weight. |
| Adult Length [1] | 4.034 feet (123 cm) | | Brood Dispersal [1] | In the open | | Brood Egg Substrate [1] | Phyto-lithophils | | Brood Guarder [1] | No | | Litter Size [1] | 750,000 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 20 years |  | | Adult Weight [2] | 38.68 lbs (17.545 kg) | | | Diet [3] | Planktivore, Detritivore, Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | | Female Maturity [1] | 3 years |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
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Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Appalachian Piedmont |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Gila |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins |
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Laurentian Great Lakes |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Large Lakes |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve National Park |
II |
616880 |
Texas, United States |
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Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
28351 |
Louisiana, United States |
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Land Between the Lakes Biosphere Reserve |
V |
166264 |
Kentucky, Tennessee, United States |
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Little River National Wildlife Refuge |
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Oklahoma, United States |
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Mammoth Cave Area Biosphere Reserve (Natn'l Park) National Park |
II |
51235 |
Kentucky, United States |
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North Temperate Lakes LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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Wisconsin, United States |
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Upper Miss. River Nat'l Wildlife Refuge National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
25823 |
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495. ♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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