Animal Diversity Web

Catostomus platyrhynchus

Jordan's sucker

(Also: Mountain sucker; Northern mountain sucker; Plains mountain sucker)

Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
      - Phylum Chordata (chordates)
        
        Craniata (craniates)
        
        Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
        
        Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
        
        Euteleostomi (bony vertebrates)
        
        Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
        
        Order Cypriniformes
        
        Family Catostomidae (Suckers)
        
        Genus Catostomus
        
        Species Catostomus platyrhynchus (Jordan's sucker)