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Definition of Chub sucker

Chub sucker
Chub Chub, n. [This word seems to signify a large or thick fish. Cf. Sw. kubb a short and thick piece of wood, and perh. F. chabot chub.] (Zo["o]l.) A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinid[ae] or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc. Chub mackerel (Zo["o]l.), a species of mackerel (Scomber colias) in some years found in abundance on the Atlantic coast, but absent in others; -- called also bull mackerel, thimble-eye, and big-eye mackerel. Chub sucker (Zo["o]l.), a fresh-water fish of the United States (Erimyzon sucetta); -- called also creekfish.

Meaning of Chub sucker from wikipedia

- basin endemic fish species like the Colorado pikeminnow, humpback chub, and razorback sucker. It is now the rarest of the endemic big-river fishes of the Colorado...
- The river chub (Nocomis micropogon) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. It...
- b**** Channel catfish Char Cherry salmon Chimaera Chinook salmon Cherubfish Chub Chubsucker Chum salmon Cichlid Cisco Climbing catfish Climbing gourami Climbing...
- wildlife species, including woundfin, Virgin River chub, Virgin spinedace, flannelmouth sucker, desert sucker, speckled dace, and Southwestern Willow Flycatcher...
- A. (2008). "Upstream and downstream movements of lake chub, Couesius plumbeus, and white sucker, Catostomus commersoni, at Catamaran Brook, 1990-2004"...
- species are the Humpback Chub (Gila cypha), Bonytail (Gila elegans), Colorado Pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius), and Razorback Sucker (Xyrauchen tex****)....
- b****, black ****pie, yellow perch, brown bullhead, carp, common sucker, chub sucker, and killfish. There is access via concrete ramp, located off County...
- related to the roundtail chub. This species is commonly found in ****ociation with the Gila topminnow, the desert and Sonora sucker, and the longfin and speckled...
- piscivorous, meaning they primarily eat fish. Their diet includes dace, chub, sucker, and both native and introduced trout. They have been reported to eat...
- pupfish and Owens tui chub, are now endangered, and the Owens speckled dace is a "species of concern." However, the Owens sucker, itself, is a species...