02-14-2019, 04:16 PM
No answers, just observations.
On a chub the front of the dorsal and pelvic fins should align. They do not on your fish. Conclusion: it can't be a chub.
Don't forget that fish often display different colors at different times. Think of kokanee. Spawning, stream vs. lake, season, age, size, water temperature, etc. can make a fish look different from the ones in the identification photos.
Redhorse suckers are not endemic to Utah nor have they been introduced (to my knowledge). Why would they be? Of course common names are often applied to species apart from their real scientific names. (I have seen mule deer in Arizona called blacktails and channel catfish in Utah Lake referred to as blue cats.) On the other hand, species have shown up where they shouldn't be before. A crappie showed up in an early-twentieth-century survey in a stream running off Navajo Mountain, long before Lake Powell was there.
I would suggest that you submit it to the DWR fisheries people. They probably know the most about the species present and their identification.
Just my two cents.
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On a chub the front of the dorsal and pelvic fins should align. They do not on your fish. Conclusion: it can't be a chub.
Don't forget that fish often display different colors at different times. Think of kokanee. Spawning, stream vs. lake, season, age, size, water temperature, etc. can make a fish look different from the ones in the identification photos.
Redhorse suckers are not endemic to Utah nor have they been introduced (to my knowledge). Why would they be? Of course common names are often applied to species apart from their real scientific names. (I have seen mule deer in Arizona called blacktails and channel catfish in Utah Lake referred to as blue cats.) On the other hand, species have shown up where they shouldn't be before. A crappie showed up in an early-twentieth-century survey in a stream running off Navajo Mountain, long before Lake Powell was there.
I would suggest that you submit it to the DWR fisheries people. They probably know the most about the species present and their identification.
Just my two cents.
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