- appearance. However, the
quillback is not a carp.
Quillback are
catostomids, and like all
catostomids, they do not have
barbels around the mouth. The quillback...
- long
pharyngeal bone in the throat,
containing a
single row of teeth.
Catostomids are most
often found in rivers, but can be
found in any
freshwater environment...
- they are
roughly 60
million years old.
During the
Eocene (55–35 Mya),
catostomids and
cyprinids spread throughout Asia; the
earliest members of the cyprinid...
- carp (Cyprinus carpio), but an easy and
notable difference is that all
catostomids lack the
characteristic barbels of carp, and carp are not
native to North...
- The
greater jumprock (Moxostoma lachneri) is a
riverine species of
catostomid fish
native to
Georgia and
Alabama in
North America. The
world record for...
- are long-lived (lifespans
greater than 20 years), much like many
other catostomid species. The
silver redhorse is the longest-lived
redhorse known by nearly...
-
Early development of M.
melanops is
quite similar to that of
other catostomids.
Larvae can be
identified by fin ray counts,
myomere counts, and pigmentation...
- with age, and in some rare individuals, white-edged fins. Like
other catostomids it has a long
dorsal fin, but
unlike all
other extant species it has...
- "Redescription of "Amyzon"
brevipinne and
remarks on
North American Eocene catostomids (Cypriniformes: Catostomidae)".
Journal of
Systematic Palaeontology....
-
including gars, bowfin, buffalofishes, carpsuckers, redhorse,
several other catostomids species,
freshwater drum, hiodontids, paddlefish, bullheads, and catfish...
