Bigeye chub (Hybopsis amblops) is a species of freshwater fish in the carp family (Cyprinidae).
The native range of the Bigeye chub includes the Lake Ontario and Lake Erie drainages in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan as well as the Ohio River basin from New York to eastern Illinois and south to the Tennessee River drainage, Georgia and Alabama, and the Ozarks of southern Missouri, northern Arkansas, and northeastern Oklahoma.
It prefers a habitat near riffles in quiet water with aquatic vegetation, in small to moderate size, clear-water tributaries with a sand, gravel, or rocky substrate.
It is a light greenish yellow color, besides the black lateral stripe stretching from its mouth to the tail.
Their diet consists of aquatic insects such as different kinds of larvae and large mayfly.