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Two males usually follow a female Sonora sucker during breeding season. Females lay their eggs in riffles, or a patch of waves or ripples, and are incubated in the spaces between gravel. Females tend to deposit eggs in smaller streams, while few spawn in lakes. Spawning starts late in the winter and
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Construction of reservoirs has greatly depleted the available habitat for the Sonora sucker. Excessive sand deposition in streams caused by watershed erosion has also affected the sucker's habitat. Two
Arizona Game and Fish Departments have taken protective measures by undergoing studies that
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The Sonora sucker can live in an array of habitats, varying from trout streams to warm water rivers. However, these fish prefer rocky, relatively deep, and quiet waters. During daylight, adult Sonora suckers tend to take cover and stay in the shade.
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Sonora suckers have a fusiform body, with large heads and chubby figures. They have generally large lower lips, with no fleshy lobes. Sonora suckers have unique square dorsal fins, and relatively large scales (but fewer than most fish in the genus
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The Sonora sucker occurs mainly in New Mexico and
Arizona, also in northern Sonora, Mexico. This species is most prevalent in the Gila and Bill Williams river basins in Arizona, and common in the Gila and San Francisco drainages in New Mexico.
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document the current population dynamics of the fish in two central
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The Sonora sucker's main diet consists of tiny crustaceans, protozoans, and macroinvertebrates. Adult fish are omnivorous, and feed in the early morning and late evening.
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fish with 16 other species in the genus scattered throughout North
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