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Cyprinidae
Central stoneroller
Campostoma anomalum
Adults eat filamentous algae and diatoms in rocky riffles
- Tropical
- Lower river
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- North America
- West Asia
- Fusiform
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
MediumCentral stoneroller is known from North America as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Campostoma
- Maximum length
- 22 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- North America: widespread across most of eastern and central U.S. in Atlantic, Great Lakes, Mississippi River, Hudson Bay (Red River) basins from New York and Ontario to North Dakota and Wyoming, and south to Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas (but absent from most of lower Ohio River basin}; Gulf Slope drainages of Texas. Also in Rio San Juan basin, Mexico.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
