Streamline chub
(Erimystax dissimilis)

Classification

Species: Erimystax dissimilis

General data

Scientific names: Streamline chub
Habitat: Freshwater
Climate: Temperate
Distribution: Mississippi

This chub typically occurs in large, medium-gradient, moderately clear streams and rivers with clean gravel bottom; often in shoal areas with moderate flow; over gravel and rubble in riffles, runs, and flowing pools of clear, small to large rivers.

Feeds opportunistically on various benthic organisms (mostly insect larvae and gastropods) and occasional terrestrial insects

Found in the Ohio River basin from western New York to northern Indiana and south to northern Alabama, and in the St. Francis and White River drainages in Missouri and Arkansas.

Max length is up to 14 cm.