The thicklip chub (''Cyprinella labrosa'') is a species of freshwater

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

in the

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Leuciscidae Leuciscidae is a family of freshwater ray-finned fishes, formerly classified as a subfamily of the Cyprinidae, which contains the true minnows. Members of the Old World (OW) clade of minnows within this subfamily are known as European minnow ...

, the shiners, daces and minnows. It is endemic to the

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, where it occurs in the Blue Ridge foothill and typical Piedmont sections of the

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and Santee drainages in

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and

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References

Cyprinella Fish described in 1870 Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope {{Leuciscinae-stub