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Cyprinidae
Utah chub
Gila atraria
Narrow gold lines on dorsal side
- Temperate
- Upper river
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- North America
- Fusiform
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
LargeUtah chub is a freshwater fish found around North America. It inhabits freshwater habitats. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 56 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Gila
- Maximum length
- 56 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- North America: Snake River system above Shoshone Falls in Wyoming and Idaho; Lake Bonneville basin (including Great Salt Lake drainage and Sevier River system) in southeastern Idaho and Utah, USA. Introduced into east Nevada, upper Missouri River basin in Montana, and Colorado River drainage in Wyoming and Utah.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
