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Common names: River redhorse
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: gamefish: yes;
Comments: Recorded from Mississippi Basin above the Fall Line, Great Lakes tributaries, and eastern Gulf Coast drainages east to the Escambia River (Ref. 10294).
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 1991
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Common names from other countries

Chevalier de rivière, 河川吸口鱼, Flod-hestefisk, ... more

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Cypriniformes (Carps) > Catostomidae (Suckers) > Catostominae
Etymology: Moxostoma: Greek, myxo = to suckle + Greek, stoma = mouth (Ref. 45335); carinatum: From the word carinatum, meaning keeled (Ref. 10294).
More on author: Cope.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; demersal. Temperate; 47°N - 31°N

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North America: St. Lawrence River-Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins from southern Quebec in Canada to central Minnesota and western Iowa in USA, and south to northern Alabama and eastern Oklahoma, USA; Gulf Slope drainages from Escambia River in Florida to Pearl River in Louisiana and Mississippi, USA.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 77.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 5723); common length : 48.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 12193); max. published weight: 4.0 kg (Ref. 40637); max. reported age: 12 years (Ref. 12193)

Inhabits rocky pools and swift runs of small to large rivers. Also occurs in impoundments (Ref. 5723, 10294). Locally common but disappearing from northern and western parts of range (Ref. 5723). Adult feeds on small bivalve mollusks (Ref. 10294).

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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)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 01 March 2012

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Gamefish: yes

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01000 (0.00534 - 0.01873), b=2.95 (2.79 - 3.11), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.6 ±0.50 se; based on food items.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (tmax=12).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Moderate to high vulnerability (51 of 100).

Moxostoma carinatum (Cope, 1870)