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Suckermouth

Suckermouth logo #10101) Fish common name
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Suckermouth

Suckermouth logo #21000 In fishes, a suckermouth is a ventrally-oriented (inferior) mouth adapted for grazing on algae and small organisms that grow on submerged objects. All Loricariidae possess a suckermouth as do the cypriniform algae eaters of the genus Gyrinocheilus and other genera. The `False Siamensis` (Epalzeorhynchus sp. or Garra taeniata) also has this featu.....
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