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Description: | The Chub is a freshwater fish of the carp family, members of which have teeth in the throat instead of the jaws. They grind against a hard horny pad in the roof of the throat and are known as pharyngeal teeth. Each type of fish in this family has distinctive teeth. The bony gill cover, or operculum, shows growth rings rather in the same way as tree rings do. In this specimen they indicate that the fish was 8 to 9 years old when it died. It came from the River Eden and had lived in the Hancock Museum for 3 years.
No of females: 1, Age: 8 (or 9 years) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.vertebratezoology.201633 | Go to resource |
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