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Common Name: Tahoe sucker
Taxonomy: available through 
Identification: Moyle (1976a); Sigler and Sigler (1987); Page and Burr (1991).
Size: 61 cm.
Native Range: Lahontan basin, southeastern Oregon, Nevada, and northeastern California (Page and Burr 1991).
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Nonindigenous Occurrences: The Tahoe sucker was collected in 1950 from the headwaters of the Sacramento drainage in Nevada (La Rivers 1962) and in the upper reaches of the Feather and Rubicon rivers in California (Moyle 1976a). It may have been introduced into the Central Valley drainage, California (Moyle 1976a).
Means of Introduction: The source of these fish is either transfer by anglers or natural stream capture.
Status: Reported from the Sacramento drainage (Nevada) and the Feather and Rubicon rivers (California) in 1950, but more recent records are lacking. Established in the Central Valley, California.
Impact of Introduction: Unknown.
Remarks: None.
La Rivers, I. 1962. Fishes and fisheries of Nevada. Nevada State Print Office, Carson City, NV.
Moyle, P. B. 1976a. Inland fishes of California. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
Page, L. M., and B. M. Burr. 1991. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. The Peterson Field Guide Series, volume 42. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA.
Sigler, W. F., and J. W. Sigler. 1987. Fishes of the Great Basin: A Natural History. University of Nevada Press, Reno, NV. 425 pp.
Other Resources:
FishBase Fact Sheet
Author: Pam Fuller
Revision Date: 4/27/2000 Citation for this information:
Pam Fuller. 2009. Catostomus tahoensis. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=355> Revision Date: 4/27/2000
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