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Cyprinidae
Redtail chub
Nocomis effusus
Carry pebbles to build egg nests
- Red
- Temperate
- Lower river
- Upper river
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- North America
- Medium
- Temperate fish
Red
Temperate
Regional distribution
MediumRedtail chub is known from North America as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Nocomis
- Maximum length
- 23 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Distribution
- North America: upper Green, upper Barren, Cumberland (in Little South Fork and downstream), Duck and lower Tennessee (between Cumberland and Duck Rivers) river drainages in Kentucky and Tennessee, USA.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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