Distribution: Lake chubsuckers occur in all Mobile basin drainages below the Fall Line. Individuals have also been collected from all coastal drainages between the Escatawpa and Chattahoochee drainages.
Original Description: Lacepède described the lake chubsucker in 1803.
Etymology: Erimyzonmeans to suck.Sucettameans a sucker or sucking fish.
Habitat & Range
This species is occasionally abundant in lakes, but because individuals generally will not bite a hook, they usually go unnoticed by anglers. Lake chubsuckers are most likely to be encountered in moderate or small streams with little or no current but with concentrations of aquatic vegetation over silty or sandy substrates. Large individuals flourish in lakes, river-overflow pools, and swamps. Our collections of tuberculate, gravid adults in both the Black Warrior and upper Tombigbee river systems indicate that spawning occurs from May to July. Little is known of this species’ life history in Alabama. Carlander (1969) reports a life span of five or six years and a maximum size of 15 inches.
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Size
7.9 to 15 in (200 to 380 mm)
