Sucker

Blue - A specialist to large flowing rivers, blue suckers travel long distances to spawn.

Buffalo - Bigmouth, black and smallmouth buffalo live in Alabama.

Carpsucker - Quillback, highfin carpsucker, and river carpsucker live in Alabama.

Chubsucker - Creek, highfin, lake and sharpfin chubsuckers live in Alabama.

Harelip - The harelip sucker, once found in north Alabama, is extinct.

Hog Sucker - Alabama and northern hog suckers live in Alabama

Redhorse - Some Alabama suckers have the common name redhorse or jumprock; they are in the genus Moxostoma.

Spotted - Common throughout Alabama, spotted suckers are easily distinguished from other catostomid species by several longitudinal rows of black or brown spots (one per scale) along the sides of the body.

White - The white sucker has 55 to 85 lateral line scales, more than any other sucker in Alabama.