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Name: |
Northern Hog Sucker |
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Other Common
Names: |
Black horse, blue sucker, hogmolley, hognose sucker, black sucker, stoneroller, spotted sucker, riffle sucker, hammerhead sucker, hog mullet, crawl-a-bottom, stone lugger, stone toter, pugamoo |
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Scientific Name: |
Hypentelium nigricans |
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Length: |
Average length is 8 inches |
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Identification: |
Body is mottled brownish with a large, bony head, squarish in cross section with the interspace between the eyes broad and curved inward, this species is the host of the glochidial stage of the elk toe mussel |
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Photo & Text
Courtesy of |
Iowa Department of Natural Resources Iowa Fish and Fishing by James R. Harlan and Everett B. Speaker
with James Mayhew; color illustrations by Maynard F. Reece Fishes of Wisconsin by George C. Becker |