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Catostomidae (Suckers) > Catostominae
Etymology: Erimyzon: Greek, eri = aumentative prefix, a lot + Greek, myzo = to suckle (Ref. 45335); sucetta: From the word sucet, meaning sucker (Ref. 10294).
More on author: Lacepède.
Environnement : milieu / zone climatique / profondeur / gamme de distribution
Écologie
; eau douce démersal; pH range: 7.0 - 7.5; dH range: ? - 15; potamodrome (Ref. 126106). Temperate; 4°C - 20°C (Ref. 2060); 44°N - 26°N
North America: Great Lakes and Mississippi River basin lowlands from southern Ontario in Canada to Wisconsin, USA and south to Gulf of Mexico in the USA; Atlantic Slope from southern Virginia to southern Florida in USA; Gulf Slope drainages from Charlotte Harbor, Florida to Guadalupe River in Texas, USA.
Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturité: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 41.0 cm TL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 5723); common length : 25.8 cm TL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 12193); âge max. reporté: 8 années (Ref. 72462)
Adults occur in lakes, swamps, ponds, sloughs and impoundments over silt, sand or debris. Rarely found in streams (Ref. 5723). They feed on microcrustacea and midge larvae (Ref. 10294).
Cycle de vie et comportement reproducteur
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 1991. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 432 p. (Ref. 5723)
Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Menace pour l'homme
Harmless
Utilisations par l'homme
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Estimations basées sur des modèles
Indice de diversité phylogénétique (Réf. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5625 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.01096 (0.00535 - 0.02247), b=3.02 (2.84 - 3.20), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Niveau trophique (Réf. 69278) |
3.1 ±0.39 se; based on food items. |
Résilience (Réf. 120179) |
Milieu, temps minimum de doublement de population : 1,4 à 4,4 années (tmax=8; Fec=20,000). |
Vulnérabilité de la pêche (Ref. 59153) |
Low to moderate vulnerability (32 of 100). 🛈 |