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- noun A
ventrally orientated (inferior )mouth , in somefish , adapted forgrazing onalgae etc. - noun Any of several fish that have this type of mouth
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Examples
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Uncommon, short stream reaches with gravel, cobble, or bedrock substrates support a few darter species, freckled madtoms, and suckermouth minnows.
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The most common minnows include the red shiner, sand shiner, suckermouth minnow, and the plains minnow; the endemic (and threatened) Arkansas River shiner also occurs.
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Common fishes include the red shiner, sand shiner, suckermouth minnow, and plains killifish.
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The redfin shiner, suckermouth minnow, redfin and orangethroat darters, smallmouth buffalo, river carpsucker, black and golden redhorses, spotted suckers, yellow and black bullheads, and flathead catfish occur; diversity and richness of aquatic fauna is markedly lower than in Ecoregions 38 and 39. 40b.
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Common minnows include the red, sand, and redfin shiners and the suckermouth minnow.
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South American armoured suckermouth catfish found in Leicestershire
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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"One of the most common problems is exotic species that reach a body of fresh water, like the suckermouth catfish (Hypostomus plecostomus), varieties of tilapia (Oreochromis), bigmouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) and even brown trout (Salmo trutta fario)," said Sánchez.
INTER PRESS SERVICE ,Emilio Godoy 2010
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The armoured suckermouth catfish - which grows up to 2ft long, is a herbivore and uses its distinctive mouth to draw up algae from rocks.
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He took this photo of it and showed it to a number of aquarists who have identified it as an armoured suckermouth catfish.
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Foreign friend: This armoured suckermouth catfish, pictured on a fence post, was found by angler Shaun Brown at the Grand Union canal near Leicester
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