Streamline chub (Erimystax dissimilis)

General data
- Main name: Streamline chub
- Climates: Temperate
- Habitat: Freshwater
- Native: North America
Classification
- Genus: Erimystax - Slender chubs
- Family: Leuciscidae - Chub family
- Order: Cypriniformes - Carps
- Class: Teleostei - Ray-finned fishes
- Superclass: Osteichthyes - Bony fishes
Description
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.