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Catostomus Commersoni
Sucker Suck"er (s[u^]k"[~e]r), n. 1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies. 2. A suckling; a sucking animal. --Beau. & Fl. 3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. --Boyle. 4. A pipe through which anything is drawn. 5. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything. 6. (Bot.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant. 7. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomid[ae]; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel. (b) The remora. (c) The lumpfish. (d) The hagfish, or myxine. (e) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre. 8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above. They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch. --Fuller. 9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang] 10. A greenhorn; one easily gulled. [Slang, U.S.] 11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.] Carp sucker, Cherry sucker, etc. See under Carp, Cherry, etc. Sucker fish. See Sucking fish, under Sucking. Sucker rod, a pump rod. See under Pump. Sucker tube (Zo["o]l.), one of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker and used for locomotion. Called also sucker foot. See Spatangoid.
Cybium Commersonii
Seerfish Seer"fish` (-f[i^]sh), n. (Zo["o]l.) A scombroid food fish of Madeira (Cybium Commersonii).

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- Laboratory Instructions". Gustavus Adolphus College. Rook, J.S.E. "Catostomus commersoni / White Sucker". 1999. http://www.rook.org/earl/bwca/nature/fish/catostomuscom...
- Hypostomus commersoni is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Paraná River drainage,...
- Valenciennes, 1839 Julis matthaei Valenciennes, 1839 Julis commersoni Valenciennes, 1839 Thal****oma commersoni (Valenciennes, 1839) Julis bicolor Günther, 1862...
- Awaous commersoni, or Commerson's freshwater goby, is a species of goby found on islands in the south-western Indian Ocean. This species reaches a length...
- Antennarius is a genus of anglerfish belonging to the family Antennariidae, the frogfishes. The fishes in this genus are found in warmer parts of the Atlantic...
- Report: Hypostomus commersoni". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 29 August 2022. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). "Hypostomus commersoni". FishBase. "Biographical...
- Commerson's roundleaf bat (Macronycteris commersoni), also known as Commerson's leaf-nosed bat, is a species of bat endemic to Madagascar. It is named...
- Location of Mauritius Synonyms Strix sauzieri Newton & Gadow, 1893 Scops commersoni Oustalet, 1896 Strix newtoni (male) Rothschild, 1907 Tyto sauzieri (female)...
- 1803) Netuma barba (Lacepède, 1803) Netuma barbus (Lacepède, 1803) Netuma commersoni (Lacepède, 1803) Netuma upsulonophora (Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889) Netuma...
- Longnose suckers are easily confused with white suckers (Catostomus commersoni), which appear very similar. However, longnose suckers can be distinguished...