Description

Also known as Broad Mullet, Mullet, Quillback Carpsucker, River Carpsucker.

Found in schools, moving slowly, over sand and gravel bottoms, in backwater pools, main channels of creeks, lakes, and small to large rivers.
They feed on benthic invertebrates, plant detritus and sand.
Length - 66cm
Depth - ?m
Widespread North America

Suckerfish are fund in freshwaters they have thick fleshy lips with no teeth, but their throat has a single row of teeth with which to grind their food up against a roughed base plate. Ref: https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Carpiodes-cyprinus.html