Pantosteus

Taxonavigation: Catostomoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Subordo:Catostomoidei

Familia: Catostomidae
Subfamilia: Catostominae
Genus: Pantosteus

Species: †P. arenatus – †P. asitus – P. bondi – P. clarkii – P. columbianus – P. discobolus – †P. hyomyzon – P. jordani – P. lahontan – P. nebuliferus – †P. oromyzon – P. platyrhynchus – P. plebeius – P. santaanae

Name

Pantosteus Cope in Cope & Yarrow, 1875

Type species: Minomus platyrhynchus Cope, 1874

Synonyms

• Notolepidomyzon (subgenus of Pantosteus) Fowler, 1913

References

• Cope, E.D. & Yarrow, H.C. 1875. Report upon the collections of fishes made in portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, during the years 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874. Engineer Department, United States Army, Report upon the Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys west of the one hundredth Meridian, 5 (Zoology) Chapter 6: 635–703, Pls. 26–32.
• Fowler, H.W. 1913. Notes on Catostomoid Fishes. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 65(1): 45–60. BHL Reference page.  [see page 47.]
• Smith, G.R., Stewart, J.D. & Carpenter, N.E. 2013. Fossil and recent mountain suckers, Pantosteus, and significance of introgression in catostomin fishes of Western United States. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan 743: 1–59.
• Unmack, P.J., T.E. Dowling, N.J. Laitinen, C.L. Secor, R.L. Mayden, D.K. Shiozawa, & G.R. Smith. 2014. Influence of introgression and geological processes on phylogenetic relationships of western North American mountain suckers (Pantosteus, Catostomidae). PLOS One https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090061.
• Bagley, J.C., R.L. Mayden, & P.M. Harris. 2018. Phylogeny and divergence times of suckers (Cypriniformes: Catostomidae) inferred from Bayesian total-evidence analyses of molecules, morphology, and fossils. PeerJ 6:e5168; DOI 10.7717/peerj.5168.

Vernacular names

English: Mountain Suckers