Es troba a Nord-amèrica: el Canadà (les conques fluvials àrtiques des de la Colúmbia Britànica[3][4][5] fins a Alberta),[6] els Estats Units (entre d'altres, Washington,[7] Wyoming, Oregon,[8][9] Idaho, Nevada,[10] Califòrnia, Utah, Arizona, Nou Mèxic,[11] Colorado, Pennsilvània,[12] Illinois,[13] Tennessee,[14] Carolina del Nord i Nova York)[15] i Mèxic (com ara, Sonora, Durango i Zacatecas), incloent-hi les conques dels Grans Llacs d'Amèrica del Nord,[16] Missouri,[17] del llac Bonneville, del llac June i dels rius Snake, Yaqui, Colorado,[18] Gila, Fraser,[19] Columbia,[10][20][21] Missouri, Saskatchewan, Sacramento, Bravo,[22] Sonora, Klamath,[23] Siuslaw, Hudson i Sant Llorenç.[24]
- Catostomus ardens (Jordan & Gilbert, 1881)[25]
- Catostomus bernardini (Girard, 1856)[26]
- Catostomus cahita (Siebert & Minckley, 1986)[27]
- Catostomus catostomus (Forster, 1773)[28][29]
- Catostomus catostomus catostomus (Forster, 1773)
- Catostomus catostomus lacustris (Bajkov, 1927)
- Catostomus clarkii (Baird & Girard, 1854)[30]
- Catostomus columbianus (Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1893)[31]
- Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)[32]
- Catostomus conchos (Mee, 1902)
- Catostomus discobolus (Cope, 1871)[33]
- Catostomus discobolus discobolus (Cope, 1871)
- Catostomus discobolus jarrovii (Cope, 1874)
- Catostomus fumeiventris (Miller, 1973)[34]
- Catostomus insignis (Baird & Girard, 1854)[30]
- Catostomus latipinnis (Baird & Girard, 1853)[35][36]
- Catostomus leopoldi (Siebert & Minckley, 1986)[37]
- Catostomus macrocheilus (Girard, 1856)[26]
- Catostomus microps (Rutter, 1908)[38]
- Catostomus nebuliferus (Garman, 1881)[39]
- Catostomus occidentalis (Ayres, 1854)[40][41]
- Catostomus occidentalis lacusanserinus (Fowler, 1913)
- Catostomus occidentalis occidentalis (Ayres, 1854)
- Catostomus platyrhynchus (Cope, 1874)[42][43]
- Catostomus plebeius (Baird & Girard, 1854)[30]
- Catostomus rimiculus (Gilbert & Snyder in Gilbert, 1898)[23]
- Catostomus santaanae (Snyder, 1908)[44]
- Catostomus snyderi (Gilbert, 1898)[23]
- Catostomus tahoensis (Gill & Jordan in Jordan, 1878)[45][46]
- Catostomus tsiltcoosensis (Evermann & Meek, 1898)
- Catostomus utawana (Mather, 1886)
- Catostomus warnerensis (Snyder, 1908)[8]
- Catostomus wigginsi (Herre & Brock a Herre, 1936)[47]
- Catostomus xanthopus (Rafinesque, 1820)[48][49][50][24][51][52]
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