Chub
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see minnow.
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Minnow - common name for the Cyprinidae, a large family of freshwater fish which includes the carp and of which there are some 300 American species.
Chub
This article is related to the fish. For information related to the gay male subculture, see Chubby culture. Or for the game, see ChUB.
Lake Chub Behaviour
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Roundtail Chub : (Gila robusta)
Description
Native to Arizona, the roundtail chub is also considered a sport fish because of its hardy fighting ability and willingness to take many of the same baits and lures used for trout.
Yaqui chub (Gila purpurea)
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The chub is an all-present wanderer. In shoals or individually, it is present from mountain streams to the silty meanders of low-lying streams.
In the Santa Clara River system, this may include a wide range of native aquatic invertebrates and vertebrates, including tadpoles and juvenile amphibians, young arroyo chub (Gila orcutti), ...
They breed in riffles and shallow, flowing pools, usually in the nests of creek chub or common shiner. As a female moves toward these nests, they are joined by two or more males.
Each bird eats more than 4 pounds of food a day[citation needed], mostly fish such as Cypriniformes like Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio), Lahontan Tui Chub (Gila bicolor obesa) and shiners[citation needed], ...
The mackerel species that is found in the Pacific is commonly known as Chub Mackerel, and bears the scientific name Scomber japonicus.
For descriptions of other Cyprinids than the carp, see Goldfish, Barbel, Gudgeon, Rudd, Roach, Chub, Dace, Minnow, Tench, Bream, Bleak, Bitterling, Mahseer.
Members of the Cyprinidae family include fish with common names such as minnow, shiner, chub, dace, and stoneroller. Goldfish and carp, both native to Asia, are also members of this family.
that the replacement otters derive, not from the original species, but from imported species, and is therefore not really a true reintroduction. The environmentalists fret, too, that the otter may prey on endangered species such as the humpback chub ...
 See also: Shiner, Minnow, Trout, Dace, Angler
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