Range and Identity
The retrieved account places Pantosteus bondi in Oregon. Its scientific name should remain attached to the collection locality rather than be replaced by a broad mountain-sucker label. Related western suckers have undergone taxonomic revision, so names used in older publications need careful interpretation.
Identification Features
Diagnostic features include a tall, narrow gill-cover bone and dark pigment along the tail-fin rays, with little pigment between them. Counts commonly include seventy-five to eighty-five lateral-line scales. These characters are used in combination to distinguish related mountain suckers rather than relying on the broad sucker body shape alone.
Food and Life History
A 12.9-centimeter standard-length reference is linked to a modern descriptive treatment of mountain suckers. It is retained as a documented descriptive measurement rather than a proven maximum. The account does not establish a detailed diet or breeding calendar, and no maximum mass is inferred from that specimen size.
Field Note
Preserve the original identification and any later revision together. That makes a historical sucker record useful without silently combining distinct modern species.
All Lakes With Pantosteus bondi
Browse all lakes and reservoirs with confirmed Pantosteus bondi records in our database, listed alphabetically.
No published lakes are currently linked to this species in our confirmed records.