#2262 · 🐟 fish

Creek Chub

Semotilus atromaculatus

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

Semotilus atromaculatus , known as the creek chub or the common creek chub , is a small minnow, a freshwater fish found in the eastern US and Canada. Differing in size and color depending on origin of development, the creek chub can usually be defined by a dark brown body with a white lateral line spanning horizontally across the body. It lives primarily within streams and rivers. Creek Chubs attain lengths of 2-6 inches with larger specimens of...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 16,216iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
16,216 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Samuel L. Mitchill in 1818 (208 years ago).