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Semotilus atromaculatus, known as the creek chub or the common creek chub, is a small minnow, a freshwater fish found in the eastern US and Canada.Differing in size and color depending on origin of development, the creek chub can usually be defined by a dark brown body with a black lateral line spanning horizontally across the body.
The creek chubsucker is an important species in lotic water systems. It is a fish that turns over energy by consuming vegetation detritus. [17] The creek chubsucker also regulates population levels of macro-invertebrates and algae, and it serves as an important prey fish for many desirable game fish species. [7]
The lake chub is generally found throughout Canada up to the Arctic Circle. Some scattered populations are also present in the northern United States, more precisely in New England, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Washington, Idaho and Utah. The lake chub is also the only minnow known to live in ...
Barrett Friesen steers a motorboat toward the shore of Lake Powell, with the Glen Canyon Dam towering overhead. The Utah State University graduate student and colleagues are on a mission to save ...
Drought and overuse of the Colorado River have driven Lake Powell's water levels low enough to allow invasive fish to slip through downstream. As Lake Powell shrinks, voracious smallmouth bass are ...
Lake chub (Couesius plumbeus) Spotfin shiner (Cyprinella spiloptera) Cutlip minnow (Exoglossum maxillingua) Chiselmouth (Gila alutacea) Brassy minnow (Hybognathus hankisoni) Eastern silvery minnow (Hybognathus regius) Striped shiner (Luxilus chrysocephalus) Common shiner (Luxilus cornutus) Redfin shiner (Lythrurus umbratilis) Silver chub ...
Creek chub (Semotilus atromaculatus) Fallfish (Semotilus corporalis) ... Lake herring (Coregonus artedi) References. Dnr.state.md: Fish key of native species
Members of this family are known as creek chubs or the creek chub-plagopterin (CC-P) clade of minnows. All members of this family are found in North America, and it includes among the northernmost-distributed of all North American minnows, the lake chub. [1] [2]