{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{Speciesbox | name = Brown Madtom | image = Brown Madtom, Graves County, KY, USA imported from iNaturalist photo 332617310.jpg | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=NatureServe |date=2013 |title=''Noturus phaeus'' |volume=2013 |article-number=e.T202697A18229244 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202697A18229244.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}</ref> | taxon = Noturus phaeus | authority = W. R. Taylor, 1969 }} The '''brown madtom''' ('''''Noturus phaeus''''') is a species of madtom catfish native to the southern United States.<ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021" /><ref name=Peterson>{{cite book |title=Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of North America north of Mexico |edition=2nd |first1=Lawrence M. |last1=Page |first2=Brooks M. |last2=Burr |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |year=2011 |location=New York |pages=228–229 |isbn=978-0-547-24206-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Inland Fishes of Mississippi |first=Stephen T. |last=Ross |year=2002 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn= 978-1-57806-246-1 |pages=172–174}}</ref><ref name=FLMNH>{{cite web |title=Brown Madtom ''Noturus phaeus'' |publisher=Florida Museum of Natural History |url=http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/catfish/ictaluridae/brownmadtom.htm |access-date=October 3, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005014231/http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/catfish/ictaluridae/brownmadtom.htm |archive-date=October 5, 2015 }}</ref>

==Distribution== The distribution of the brown madtom includes disjunct tributaries of the Mississippi River from the Obion River in Tennessee and Kentucky south to southwestern Mississippi and central and northern Louisiana extending to extreme southern Arkansas. It occupies creeks and small rivers with sand-gravel riffles and runs with debris, rocks, and undercut banks.<ref name=Peterson/><ref name=FLMNH/>

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Category:Noturus Madtom Category:Endemic fish of the United States Category:Freshwater fish of the Southeastern United States Category:Taxa named by William Ralph Taylor Category:Fish described in 1969

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