Chubs already protected under different name
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recommended that two species of fish should no longer be listed as threatened on the Endangered Species Act due to a classification error.
In October 2015, the service proposed adding the roundtail chub and the headwater chub to the Endangered Species list but in September 2016, it learned that the headwater chub, the roundtail chub and the Gila chub are all actually the same species. The species will now be classified as roundtail chub (Gila robusta).
The Gila chub is already on the Endangered Species List and it will remain there, but previous recommendations to add the roundtail chub and headwater chub will be dropped.