Bluehead chub (Nocomis leptocephalus) and nest associate species. See short video on the Bluehead Chub at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz6uJQ4YVn4
Rapidan River, Co. Rt. 662, approximately 5 km W of Wolftown, Madison Co., Virginia, site of multiple videotaping sessions of Bluehead chub (Nocomis leptocephalus) and its nest associates (Mountain redbelly dace, Chrosomus oreas; Rosyside dace (Clinostomus funduloides); and Common shiner, Luxilus cornutus).
Nocomis leptocephalus (Bluehead chub)(right) and Chrosomus oreas (Mountain redbelly dace) (background) Rockfish River, Augusta Co, VA
Male nest-builder Nocomis leptocephalus (Bluehead chub)(center), and subordinate male N. leptocephalus (right) and six nest associates over pebble nest in Tom’s Creek, Montgomery Co., VA.
Campostoma anomalum (Stoneroller)(center and Chrosomus oreas (Mountain redbelly dace) jockeying for position over nest of Nocomis leptocephalus in South River, Rockbridge Co., VA.
Campostoma anomalum (Stoneroller)(center), Clinostomus fundiloides (Rosyside dace (upper) in South River about 5 km south of Vesuvius, VA.
Representatives (Semotilus corporalis, fallfish; Exoglossum maxillingua (Cutlips minnow, right); and Nocomis leptocephalus (Bluehead chub, background and left) of the three pebble mound nest building species in tributary of Rapidan River, Madison Co., VA.