razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus)

razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus)

Adult razorback sucker

Description
Photograph taken by Melanie Fischer, USFWS
Date 16 April 2015, 05:12
Source Razorback Sucker- adult https://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwshq/19774831695/
Author U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters https://www.flickr.com/people/50838842@N06
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Razorback_Sucker-_adult_(19774831695).jpg

The razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus) is a fresh water sucker fish found in rivers and lakes in the western United States. It can grow to a meter in length and is recognisable by the keel between its head and dorsal fin. It used to inhabit much of the Colorado River basin but commercial fishing, river damming and habitat loss have caused great declines in populations. It is now restricted to the Colorado River upstream of the Grand Canyon, and to three lakes, Lake Mead, Lake Mohave and Lake Havasu. Order: Cypriniformes, Family: Catostomidae, Genus: Xyrauchen, Species: Xyrauchen texanus (C. C. Abbott, 1860).


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Description		razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus) Adult razorback sucker Description Photograph taken by Melanie Fischer, USFWS Date 16 April 2015, 05:12 Source Razorback Sucker- adult https://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwshq/19774831695/ Author U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters https://www.flickr.com/people/50838842@N06 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Razorback_Sucker-_adult_(19774831695).jpg The razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus) is a fresh water sucker fish found in rivers and lakes in the western United States. It can grow to a meter in length and is recognisable by the keel between its head and dorsal fin. It used to inhabit much of the Colorado River basin but commercial fishing, river damming and habitat loss have caused great declines in populations. It is now restricted to the Colorado River upstream of the Grand Canyon, and to three lakes, Lake Mead, Lake Mohave and Lake Havasu. Order: Cypriniformes, Family: Catostomidae, Genus: Xyrauchen, Species: Xyrauchen texanus (C. C. Abbott, 1860).

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