River Carpsucker

The river carpsucker (Carpiodes carpio) is a long-lived freshwater fish belonging to the Catostomidae that is native to the inland United States and northern Mexico. This species has a slightly arched back and is somewhat stout and compressed. While the fins are usually opaque, in older fish they may be dark yellow. It is distributed along the Mississippi River basin from Pennsylvania to Montana. The river carpsucker, like most suckers, is benthivorous and obtains its nutrients from algae, microcrustaceans, and other various tiny planktonic plants and animals found in silty substrates.

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Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of River Carpsucker being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

• Carpiodes cyprinus
• Moxostoma macrolepidotum
• Moxostoma anisurum
• Disymphia molitorella
• Ictiobus bubalus
• Onychostoma alticorpus

Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Catostomidae

Genus

Carpiodes

Species

Carpiodes carpio

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