Longnose sucker

Longnose sucker
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Catostomidae
Genus:	Catostomus
Species:	C. catostomus
Binomial name
Catostomus catostomus J. R. Forster, 1773
Subspecies
C. c. catostomus C. c. cristatus Cope, 1883[2] C. c. lacustris
Synonyms
Cyprinus catostomus Forster, 1773 Cyprinus rostratus Tilesius, 1813 Catostomus longirostrum Lesueur, 1817 Catostomus hudsonius Lesueur, 1817 Cyprinus hudsonius (Lesueur, 1817) Catostomus communis Lesueur, 1817 Catostomus forsterianus Richardson, 1823 Catostomus aurora Agassiz, 1850 Catostomus griseus Girard, 1856 Catostomus nanomyzon Mather, 1886

The longnose sucker (Catostomus catostomus) is a species of cypriniform freshwater fish in the family Catostomidae. It is native to North America from the northern United States to the top of the continent. It is also found in Russia in rivers of eastern Siberia, and this one of only two species of sucker native to Asia (the other is the Chinese Myxocyprinus asiaticus).