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Southeastern Blue Sucker

Cycleptus meridionalis

Classification

Cycleptus is a genus of freshwater fish containing two relatively large North American species of suckers. They are endemic to river basins draining into the Gulf of Mexico, including the Mississippi, Rio Grande and others in the United States and Mexico. Species Cycleptus elongatus (Lesueur, 1817) (Blue sucker) Cycleptus meridionalis Burr & Mayden, 1999 (Southeastern blue sucker) References Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.)

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 13