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Cyprinidae
chub
Squalius cephalus
Fusiform Fish from the Adriatic Sea
- Temperate
- Regional distribution
- Europe
- Fusiform
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Fusiform
Largechub is a freshwater fish from Eurasia. It inhabits freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 60 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Squalius
- Maximum length
- 60 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Eurasia: North, Baltic, northern Black, White, Barents and Caspian Sea basins, Atlatinc basins southward to Adour drainages (France), Great Britain north to 56°C, Scandinavia: southern Finland, Sweden north to abut Stockholm. Mediterranean basin from Var to Hérault (possibly Aude) (France) drainages. Introduced elsewhere, Naturally absent from Italy and Adriatic basin.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
