''Percopsis transmontana'', the sand roller, is a species of percopsiform fish
endemic to the
Columbia River
The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: ' or '; Sahaptin: ''Nch’i-Wàna'' or ''Nchi wana''; Sinixt dialect'' '') is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, C ...
drainage in the northwestern
United States. This species grows to a length of
TL. Sand rollers can live up to 6 years in slow-moving, sandy-bottomed streams and rivers among vegetation. Their diet includes
flies and
Trichoptera, although juveniles also have been known to eat
crustacean zooplankton.
References
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Percopsiformes
Freshwater fish of the United States
Fish described in 1892
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