Bigmouth Buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus)
Other Names Gourdhead, Redmouth Buffalo, Common Buffalo Description Ictiobus is Greek for "bull fish" and cyprinellus is Latin meaning "small carp.
Bigmouth Buffalo: (Ictiobus cyprinellus)
Description
Non-native. Introduced to Arizona in 1918. Heavy bodied fish. Back is gray to olive-bronze with green-copper reflections. Sides are black to olive-yellow; belly is pale yellow to white.
Bigmouth buffalo live in lakes, large rivers, and swamps. They can live in shallow, slow-moving water with a silty, muddy bottom and can tolerate low oxygen and high temperatures (up to 90 degrees).
The bigmouth buffalo fish reaches 4 ft (120 cm) in length and 65 lb (29 kg) in weight, the smallmouth buffalo fish sometimes attains 20 lb (9 kg), and the black, or mongrel, buffalo fish is intermediate in size.
 See also: Buffalo, Carp, Copper, Sucker, Catfish
  
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