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Utah Chub

Gila atraria

The Utah Chub is a friendly fish that lives in lakes and rivers. They have a shiny body and love to swim in schools with their friends. They are an important part of their watery home!

Hábitat: Wetlands

Aspecto

The Utah Chub has a sleek, torpedo-shaped body with a dark olive or brownish back and silvery sides. Its mouth points slightly downward, and it can have a faint dark stripe along its side, making it blend well in various water environments.

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Utah Chub

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Sometimes, so many Utah Chubs school together that they look like a moving dark cloud in the water!

Their scientific name, Gila atraria, means 'dark chub,' even though many are quite silvery.

These hardy fish once thrived in ancient Lake Bonneville, a massive prehistoric lake!

Utah Chubs can change their color slightly to better hide from hungry predators!

Habilidades especiales

Utah Chub can live in many water types, from clear mountain streams to salty lake edges, because it tolerates wide temperature and salinity changes.

Utah Chub forms huge schools, which helps them confuse predators and find food more easily as a big team.

Utah Chub has a flexible diet, eating plants, insects, and tiny creatures, which helps it survive when food is scarce.

Medidas y detalles

Longitud: 10-45 cm
Peso: 0.05-1.5 kg
Esperanza de vida: 3-10 años
Velocidad de nado: 8 km/h
Profundidad máxima: 20 m
Tipo de agua: Agua dulce

Dieta y alimentación

An omnivore, the Utah Chub eats almost anything it can find, from plants to tiny insects!

Diferencias por edad: Younger chubs primarily eat tiny plankton, shifting to a broader diet of insects and plant matter as they grow.

Alimentos principales

aquatic insects
zooplankton
algae
detritus

Método de búsqueda

Foraging

Conexiones ecológicas

eats

Largemouth Bass

Micropterus salmoides

An introduced predator that significantly preys on chubs.

eats

Osprey

Pandion haliaetus

This fish-eating bird is a common aerial predator.

eats

Plumose Midge

Chironomus plumosus

Utah Chubs frequently consume these small aquatic insect larvae.

Rasgos

Social

Los animales sociales viven en grupos organizados, cooperando para obtener beneficios de supervivencia como la búsqueda de alimento, la defensa y la cría de descendencia.

Colorido

Colorido describe a organismos u objetos que exhiben una amplia variedad de colores brillantes y distintivos.

Herbívoro

Este rasgo caracteriza a los organismos cuya dieta consiste total o principalmente en material vegetal.

Humedal

Este rasgo de hábitat identifica especies que se encuentran en humedales, que son áreas de tierra saturadas de agua, ya sea permanente o estacionalmente, e incluyen marismas, pantanos y ciénagas.