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Catostomidae
(redirected from Sucker fish)

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Catostomidae [‚kad·ə′stäm·ə‚dē]
(vertebrate zoology)
The suckers, a family of cypriniform fishes in the suborder Cyprinoidei.


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A complete set of 1972 plastic swivel stools adorns the bar, behind which is a spacious fish tank containing a single, apparently ravenous sucker fish.
Smith insisted the water diversion was intended to help threatened sucker fish and that "the focus at the time was not on salmon," and said the die-off occurred 18 months later near the mouth of the Klamath River.
This meant, said the BOR, that Upper Klamath Lake must be kept at historic high levels for the sucker fish and that more water had to be released into the Klamath River for the coho--ergo, water for the fishies, not for the farmers.
 
 
 
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