Clear chub

Clear chub
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Hybopsis
Species: H. winchelli
Binomial name
Hybopsis winchelli
(Girard, 1856)

The clear chub (Hybopsis winchelli) is a species of freshwater fish in the carp family (Cyprinidae).

Geographic distribution

The Range of the clear chub includes the eastern tributaries of the Mississippi River, southwestern Mississippi and Louisiana, and extends east along the Gulf Slope to and including the Mobile drainage basin in Alabama and Georgia, as well as the Perdido River system east to the Apalachicola River basin, and Gulf of Mexico drainages from the Ocklockonee River in Florida, and Flint River in Georgia, to the Mississippi River in Mississippi. [1]

Ecology

The clear chub is a freshwater fish of the United States. Habitats of this species include creeks and small to medium rivers over sand-silt bottoms. It prefers pools near riffle areas. Populations in eastern parts of the range tend to occupy smaller streams than those in western part.[1]

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