''Thoburnia'' is a genus of
suckers found in the eastern
United States
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. There are currently two recognized species in this genus. Formerly regarded as a subgenus of the genus ''
Moxostoma
''Moxostoma'', the redhorses or jumprocks, is a genus of North American ray-finned fish in the family Catostomidae. Redhorses are variable in size, geographic location, and other ecological traits such as spawning substrate. Several redhorses ar ...
'' before elevation to full genus.
Species
* ''
Thoburnia hamiltoni''
Raney & Lachner, 1946 (Rustyside sucker)
* ''
Thoburnia rhothoeca''
(Thoburn Thoburn is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
People
* Crawford R. Thoburn (1862–1899), American Methodist minister
* Isabella Thoburn (1840–1901), American Christian missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church in North India
...
, 1896) (Torrent sucker)
The species ''T. atripinnis'', formerly placed in this genus, is now placed in its own genus, ''
Vexillichthys''. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that ''Vexillichthys'' is more closely related to
hogsuckers than to other species of ''Thoburnia''.
References
*
Catostomidae
Fish of North America
Fish of the United States
Taxa named by David Starr Jordan
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