• Characteristics - brown back with silvery reflections, sides tinged golden yellow with dark edged scales, belly white, scales large, no nipple-like extension on lower lip
• Distribution - common from the Great Border rivers into the large interior rivers and most river impoundments in Iowa
• Foods - bottom ooze, plant materials, and aquatic insect larvae

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