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Cyprinidae
Silver chub
Macrhybopsis storeriana
Twenty Three Centimeters Carp of North American Waters
- Silver
- Temperate
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- North America
- Elongated
- Medium
- Temperate fish
Silver
Temperate
Regional distribution
Elongated
MediumThe silver chub (Macrhybopsis storeriana) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. This species is found in North America.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Macrhybopsis
- Maximum length
- 23 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- North America: Lake Erie drainage; Red River drainage from Manitoba, Canada south to Minnesota, USA; Mississippi River basin in Pennsylvania and West Virginia west to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and south to Gulf Coast; Gulf drainages from Mobile Bay drainage in Alabama to Lake Pontchartrain drainages in Louisiana, USA; isolated population in Brazos River in Texas, USA.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
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