| Chasmistes | |
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| Shortnose sucker | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Catostomidae |
| Tribe: | Catostomini |
| Genus: | Chasmistes D. S. Jordan, 1878 |
| Type species | |
| Catostomus fecundus Jordan, 1878
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Chasmistes is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Catostomidae.[1]
They are native to freshwater habitats in the Western United States.
Several species are seriously threatened, and one has become extinct in recent history (a second extinct species has only been known from fossils).
- ^ "Chasmistes". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved March 7, 2008.