Catostomus conchos Meek, 1902:75
Matalote Conchos
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Erroneously listed as Extinct by (Contreras-Balderas, 1978 fide Miller et al., 1989:37)
IUCN RedList status: Vulnerable
Distribution & Habitat
Mexico
Type locality: "Mexico: Río Conchos at Jiménez" (Ibarra & Stewart, 1987:21); "Río Conchos at Jiménez, Chihuahua, Mexico" (Fricke et al., 2026)
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: FMNH 3557 (Ibarra & Stewart 1987:21; Fricke et al., 2026)
Paratypes:
FMNH 3558 (orig. 10, now 8 or 6) (Fricke et al., 2026)
USNM 105090 [ex FMNH 3558] (2) (Fricke et al., 2026)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Meek, Seth Eugene. (1902). A contribution to the ichthyology of Mexico. Field Columbian Museum, Zoölogical Series 3(6): 63-128, pls. 14-31. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12354
Other references:
Anonymous. (2002). Fish collection database of the University of Kansas Natural History Museum. University of Kansas.
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Contreras-Balderas, S. (1978). Speciation aspects and manmade community composition changes in Chihuahuan desert fishes, pp. 405-431. In: Wauer, R. H. and Riskind, D. H. (eds.). Transactions of the symposium on the biological resources of the Chihuahuan Desert region. U.S. Natl. Park Serv. Trans. Proc. Ser. No. 3.
Contreras-Balderas, S. and Almada-Villela, P. (1996). Catostomus conchos. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T4043A10317228. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T4043A10317228.en. Accessed on 13 September 2025.
Fricke, Ron, Eschmeyer, William N. and Van der Laan, Richard (eds.). (2026). Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Electronic version of 7 July 2026. Available at: https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [Accessed 2 August 2026]
Fricke, Ron, Reséndiz López, M. A. and Oseguera Rodríguez, A. S. (2024). Fishes and Lampreys of Mexico. An annotated checklist. CONABIO, Ciudad de México: 1-863.
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Groombridge, B. (ed.). (1994). 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Ibarra, M. and Stewart, D. J. (1987). Catalogue of type specimens of Recent fishes in Field Museum of Natural History. Fieldiana Zoology (New Series) 35: 1-112.
IUCN. (1990). IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Miller, Robert Rusht, Minkley, W. L. and Norris, S. M. (2006 '2005'). Freshwater Fishes of México. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press. xxv + 490 pp. + 99 pls.
Miller, Robert Rush, Williams, James D. and Williams, Jack E. (1989). Extinctions of North American fishes during the past century. Fisheries 14(6): 22-38.
Page, L. M., K. E. Bemis, T. E. Dowling, H. S. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, K. E. Hartel, R. N. Lea, N. E. Mandrak, M. A. Neighbors, J. J. Schmitter-Soto and H. J. Walker Jr. (2023). Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Eighth edition. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication No. 37: i-vii + 1-439.
Ruiz-Campos, G., Sánchez-Gonzáles, S., Mayden, R. L. and Varela-Romero, A. (2016). Meristic and morphometric comparison of an undescribed sucker of the Río Culiacán (Catostomus sp.) and Yaqui sucker (Catostomus bernardini) (Catostomidae, Teleostei) from the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 380-389.
Scharpf, C. (2006). Annotated checklist of North American freshwater fishes, including subspecies and undescribed forms. Part II: Catostomidae ... [through] Mugilidae. American Currents 32(4): 1-40.