Search: sucker
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreRazorback sucker
Endangered river fish with a distinctive back ridgeOther · Rivers and lakes
🇺🇸 United StatesHarelip sucker
Extinct North American fish with a split lower lip.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1877
🇺🇸 United StatesJune sucker
Endangered Utah lake fish named for its spawning monthOther · Rivers and lakes
🇺🇸 United StatesWhite sucker
A common North American freshwater cypriniform fish with fleshy lips used for bottom feeding.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1803
WorldHypostomus plecostomus
A tropical armored catfish from South America, kept in aquariums for algae control.Catfish · Rivers and lakes · 1758
🇻🇪 Venezuela and 1 moreOtocinclus
Small South American armored catfishes known for algae eating and air breathing.Catfish · Rivers and lakes
🇺🇸 United States and 4 moreSea lamprey
A jawless, parasitic fish native to the Northern Hemisphere that attacks other fish.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1758
🇺🇸 United StatesCui-ui
Endangered sucker fish native to Pyramid Lake in NevadaOther · Rivers and lakes
🇨🇦 Canada and 1 moreBigmouth buffalo
A long-lived North American freshwater fish known for its terminal mouth and exceptional lifespan.Catfish · Rivers and lakes
🇨🇳 ChinaButterfly loach
A small, flat freshwater loach from fast Chinese streams.Other · Rivers and lakes
🇰🇭 Cambodia and 4 moreGyrinocheilus aymonieri
A Southeast Asian freshwater fish known for its suction-like mouth and role in the aquarium trade.Other · Rivers and lakes
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Sea lamprey: Fernando Losada Rodríguez, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- White sucker: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0, source
- Bigmouth buffalo: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Butterfly loach: Lerdsuwa, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gyrinocheilus aymonieri: Pseudogastromyzon, Public domain, source
- Razorback sucker: USFWS Mountain Prairie, Public domain, source
- Hypostomus plecostomus: Raphaël Covain, Natural History Museum of Geneva, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Otocinclus: CHUCAO, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Harelip sucker: Evermann, Barton Warren; Jordan, David Starr, Public domain, source
- June sucker: David Starr Jordan, Public domain, source
- Cui-ui: John Otterbein Snyder, Public domain, source