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Nazas sucker

Pantosteus nebuliferus

Classification

Pantosteus, the mountain suckers, is a genus of North American freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Catostomidae. Long treated as a subgenus of Catostomus, phylogenetic evidence has found them to a form a monophyletic group that diverged from other members of Catostomus during the Miocene, and they are thus treated better as a distinct genus. They are native to mountainous regions of western North America, from southern Canada to north-central Mexico.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Mexico · 2