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Catostomus occidentalis (Sacramento sucker)

Synonyms: Catostomus araeopus; Catostomus humboldtianus; Catostomus labiatus; Catostomus occidentalis lacusanserinus; Catostomus occidentalis occidentalis

Infraspecies

Catostomus occidentalis humboldtianus
Catostomus occidentalis mniotiltus

Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  10 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Sacramento - San Joaquin United States Nearctic Temperate Coastal Rivers    

Protected Areas

Predators

Aquila chrysaetos (Golden Eagle)[2]
Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Glaridacris catostomi[3]
Octospinifer torosus[3]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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.
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Gibson, 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