redhorse
noun
red·horse
ˈred-ˌhȯrs 
: any of various large suckers (genus Moxostoma) of North American rivers and lakes with the males having red tail fins especially in the breeding season
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Floyd is the first angler to break the redhorse sucker state record since the agency added the fish to its record categories in 2024, according to WVDNR.
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Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 12 May 2025
The black redhorse’s healthy and abundant presence there tells researchers that Fish Creek is habitable to one of the most at-risk species after decades of environmental work.
—Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
The Upper Thames River Conservation Authority announced in a Feb. 13 news release that the black redhorse was first designated as at-risk in 1988.
—Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
The river redhorse has a distinctive red tail.
—Nancy Clanton, ajc, 4 June 2020
Biologists leading outings with Oxbow River Snorkeling will be sure to point out species like river redhorse, central stonerollers and elusive eastern hellbender salamanders.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2021
But the fish Sweitz saw were not the white suckers, greater redhorse, steelhead (rainbow trout) or northern pike that more commonly travel the watery highway this time of year.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2021
The golden redhorse, found in the Root River among other places, is the sucker highlighted in the DNR's 2021 booklet of fishing regulations.
—Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
Other fish, including the river redhorse sucker, haven’t been seen in the Pearl in years and likely won’t return.
—Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 23 Jan. 2021
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Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 12 May 2025
The black redhorse’s healthy and abundant presence there tells researchers that Fish Creek is habitable to one of the most at-risk species after decades of environmental work.
—Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
The Upper Thames River Conservation Authority announced in a Feb. 13 news release that the black redhorse was first designated as at-risk in 1988.
—Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
The river redhorse has a distinctive red tail.
—Nancy Clanton, ajc, 4 June 2020
Biologists leading outings with Oxbow River Snorkeling will be sure to point out species like river redhorse, central stonerollers and elusive eastern hellbender salamanders.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2021
But the fish Sweitz saw were not the white suckers, greater redhorse, steelhead (rainbow trout) or northern pike that more commonly travel the watery highway this time of year.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2021
The golden redhorse, found in the Root River among other places, is the sucker highlighted in the DNR's 2021 booklet of fishing regulations.
—Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
Other fish, including the river redhorse sucker, haven’t been seen in the Pearl in years and likely won’t return.
—Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 23 Jan. 2021
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“Redhorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/redhorse. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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