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chub (Tautoga onitis)
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chub (Tautoga onitis) specimen
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Labridae

chub

Tautoga onitis

Ninety One Centimeters Wrasse of Western Atlantic

  • Tropical
  • Regional distribution
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • North America
  • Fusiform
  • Compressed cross-section
  • Large
  • Tropical fish

chub is known from Western Atlantic as a fish. Records give a maximum length of 91 cm.

Family
Labridae
Genus
Tautoga
Maximum length
91 cm
Body shape
fusiform
Distribution
Western Atlantic: slightly east of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada to South Carolina in USA; most abundant between Cape Cod and Delaware Bay.
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

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