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The Gray Redhorse

Gray Redhorse is a freshwater sucker associated with lakes and deeper river habitats. Its documented diet includes a wider mixture of foods than insects alone.

Waterbody Setting

Adults inhabit lakes and deep runs and pools in small to medium rivers. This description includes both standing and flowing water. A fish collected in a deep pool should not automatically be assigned the exposed riffle habitat of another redhorse.

Varied Feeding

Aquatic insects, mollusks, amphipods and ostracods appear in the diet, together with algae, seeds and occasional fish. The mixture shows why a narrow insect-only account would be incomplete. Local food availability can influence which of these items is encountered.

Range and Size

The compiled account confirms United States occurrence while treating Mexican occurrence as uncertain. That uncertainty should remain visible in a distribution claim. The maximum reference is 65 centimeters total length, and no separate verified upper mass is assigned here.

Keep Uncertain Range Claims Qualified

An uncertain Mexican occurrence is different from a confirmed locality. Retaining that distinction prevents a broad distribution map from overstating the evidence.

All Lakes With Gray Redhorse

Browse all lakes and reservoirs with confirmed Gray Redhorse records in our database, listed alphabetically.

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