Chub

Bigeye - In Alabama, the bigeye chub is restricted to the Tennessee River drainage, where it commonly occurs in the Paint Rock River, Elk River, and Bear Creek systems.

Blotched - Sympatric with the streamline chub, with which it can be confused, the blotched chub is a shorter, generally deeper-bodied species characterized by a large eye, a blunt, rounded snout overhanging the upper lip, and a small, inferior mouth.

Bluehead - Stouter than the river chub, the bluehead chub is a stout, short, relatively deep-bodied species with fewer head tubercles on males—typically no more than 25, and breeding males develop prominently swelled heads (a condition known as nuptial crests), which are typically blue on the sides.

Clear - Found in eastern Mississippi, Mobile and Escatawpa basins, the clear chub appears to prefer small or moderately large streams of clear water over gravel, sand, or silt bottoms using pool areas near riffles or quiet pools with little or no current.

Creek - A common fish in headwater streams, the creek chub is found throughout the midwest and northeast and much of the mid-south; it shares some of its range with the Dixie chub which is in the Mobile basin and east to Georgia and south to Florida.

Dixie - The Dixie chub is similar to the creek chub, and it is found in the Mobile basin with the creek chub; the Dixie chub is also found east into Georgia and Florida.

Flame - In Alabama, the flame chub occurs in springs and spring runs of some Tennessee River and Choccolocco Creek tributaries.

Lined - Endemic to the Tallapoosa and Coosa river systems in the Mobile basin, the lined chub is a large minnow with a terete, compressed body and a long head, which has a long, blunt snout overhanging an inferior, slightly oblique mouth that has a single barbel in each corner.

Redeye - The redeye chub has a small barbel in each corner of the mouth and, as its names suggests, a bright red eye in live individuals; the redeye chub in Alabama is limited to the Conecuh and Chattahoochee drainages.

River - Less stout than the bluehead chub, the breeding male river chubs become rosy red with the spawning river chub’s caudal, anal, and dorsal fins becoming reddish orange, while its paired fins are yellowish.

Silver - Occupying relatively large rivers, the silver chub is a minnow that is relatively large and slender with a rounded snout that is blunt and projects well beyond the upper lip.

Speckled - Speckled chubs are confined to large, flowing river habitats and are found over gravel and sand bars in moderate to swift currents; fish called specked chubs may be more than one species.

Spotfin - Federally listed threatened, the spotfin chub is found in the Tennessee River basin of Alabama and other states.

Streamline - In Alabama the streamline chub is limited to some Tennessee River tributaries, Shoal Creek and Paint Rock River; streamline chub is a minnow whose sides that are typically marked with nine or 10 dark, horizontally elongate blotches.

Undescribed - This undescribed minnow is similar to the clear chub, but the undescribed chub is found from the Perdido River drainage east to the Apalachicola River basin.