Sonora sucker
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Sonora sucker | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Catostomidae |
Genus: | Catostomus |
Species: | C. insignis |
Binomial name | |
Catostomus insignis S. F. Baird & Girard, 1854 | |
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The Sonora Sucker (or Gila Sucker),[2] Catostomus insignis, is a medium-sized catostomid fish with 16 other species in the genus scattered throughout North America. This species is remarkably similar in appearance to the Yaqui Sucker (C. bernardini).