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Cyprinidae
bluehead chub
Nocomis leptocephalus
Male heads turn blue breeding
- Blue
- Tropical
- Upper river
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- North America
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Blue
Tropical
Regional distribution
Mediumbluehead chub is known around North America as a freshwater fish; It occurs in freshwater habitats, and the species reaches a recorded maximum of 26 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Nocomis
- Maximum length
- 26 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Distribution
- North America: Atlantic and Gulf Slope drainages from Shenandoah River in Virginia to Mississippi River in Mississippi; tributaries of Mississippi River north to Yazoo River system in Mississippi; upper New River drainage in West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina, USA; Bear Creek (Tennessee River drainage) in Alabama and Mississippi. Introduced into Little Tennessee River and French Broad systems in North Carolina and Tennessee, USA.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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