Chub

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title: "Chub" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["chubs-(fish)", "fish-common-names", "former-disambiguation-pages-converted-to-set-index-articles"] description: "Kind of Fish" topic_path: "general/chubs-fish" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chub" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Kind of Fish ::

Chub is a common fish name. It pertains to any one of a number of ray-finned fish in several families and general. In the UK, the term chub usually refers to the species Squalius cephalus. In addition, see sea chub.

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In family [[Cyprinidae]]

• Bigeye chub, genus Hybopsis
• Creek chub, genus Semotilus
• Fallfish, genus Semotilus
• European chub, genus Squalius
• Flame chub, Hemitremia flammea (a monotypic genus)
• Flathead chub, genus Platygobio
• Hornyhead chub, genus Nocomis
• Lake chub, genus Couesius
• Least chub, Iotichthys phlegethontis (a monotypic genus)
• Leatherside chub, Snyderichthys copei (a monotypic genus)
• Oregon chub, genus Oregonichthys
• Ponto-Caspian chub, genus Petroleuciscus
• Slender chub, genus Erimystax
• Western chub, genus Gila (including Siphateles)
• Genus Algansea
• Genus Notropis (eastern shiners) are also sometimes called "chubs"

In other families

• Sea chub, the family Kyphosidae
• Coregonus artedi, commonly known as cisco, lake herring, chub
• Coregonus hoyi, commonly known as bloater, and sometimes thought to be a type of Coregonus artedi
• Tautog or black porgy
• Bermuda chub, Centrolophus niger
• Chub mackerel

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