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The Colorado pikeminnow (formerly squawfish) Ptychocheilus lucius is the largest cyprinid fish of North America and one of the largest in the world, with reports of individuals up to 6 ft (1.8 m) long and weighing over 100 pounds (45 kg). Native to the Colorado River basin of the southwestern United States, it was formerly an important food fish for both Native Americans and European settlers. Once abundant and widespread in the basin, its numbers and range have declined to...

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1. J. E. Johnson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Colorado_pikeminnow.jpg
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptychocheilus_lucius

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