| 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. |
