Author: Girard, 1856
FBname: Largescale sucker
Comments: Occurs in pools and runs of medium to large rivers.  Also found in lakes.  Pelagic up to 1.8 cm in length (Ref. 1998).  Young feed on planktonic cladocerans, copepods, ostracods, and mites; chironomid, trichopteran and ephemeropteran larvae; and bottom ooze (Ref. 1998).  Adults feed on algae, diatoms, insects, amphipods, and mollusks (Ref. 1998).  May feed on salmonid eggs (Ref. 1998).  Preyed  upon by mergansers, osprey, eagles, and bears (Ref. 1998).  Edible but not highly favored (Ref. 1998).