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Nipigon Cisco |
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Name and Code |
Family |
Salmonidae - trouts and salmons |
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Species |
Coregonus nipigon |
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Taxonomic Authority |
(Koelz, 1925) |
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Common Name(s) |
Nipigon Cisco |
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Conservation Status |
Global Rank (GRank) |
G3G5 (2011-11-07) |
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National Rank (NRank) |
NU (2017-12-22) |
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Provincial Rank (SRank) |
SU |
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Ecological Value |
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General Abundance |
limited distribution |
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Economic Importance |
commercial fishery |
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Habitat and Feeding |
General Habitat(s) |
lacustrine |
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Trophic Class |
planktivore |
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Habitat Preference |
open, shallow waters of lakes |
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Reproduction |
Reproductive Guild |
Nonguarders: Open substratum spawners: Pelagophils |
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Spawning Habitat(s) |
lacustrine |
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Spawning Month(s) |
November |
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Spawning Temperature (°C) |
no data |
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Nursery Habitat(s) |
lacustrine |
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Size and Age |
Adult Length (cm) |
23.7-40.1 TL |
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Adult Weight (kg) |
0.10-0.54 |
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Maximum Length (cm) |
54.5 TL |
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Maximum Weight (kg) |
0.907 |
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Ontario Records |
Record Length (cm) |
54.5 TL |
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Ontario Range Map |
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Ontario Distribution |
Lake Nipigon, Black Sturgeon Lake, Lake Abitibi, Lac Seul, and small inland lakes in northwestern Ontario (Lake Saganaga) |
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Notes |
possible synonym of Coregonus artedi |
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Information Sources |
Carlander, K.D. 1969. Handbook of freshwater fishery biology. Volume one. Life history data on freshwater fishes of the United States and Canada, exclusive of the Perciformes. Iowa State University Press. Ames, IA. vi + 752 pp. |
Cudmore-Vokey, B. and E.J. Crossman. 2000. Checklists of the fish fauna of the Laurentian Great Lakes and their connecting channels. Can. MS Rpt. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2550: v + 39 p. |
Ditz, K. and E. Holm. 2018. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Fish Species Codes & Names. Ichthyology and Herpetology, Royal Ontario Museum. May 1994. Modified January 2018. |
Hubbs, C.L. and K.F. Lagler. 1964. Fishes of the Great Lakes region. University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor, MI. xv + 213 pp. |
Hubbs, C.L., K.F. Lagler, and G.R. Smith. 2004. Fishes of the Great Lakes region, revised edition. University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor, MI. xvii + 276 pp. |
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). 2014. On-line database. http://www.itis.gov, accessed 07 June 2014. |
Koelz, W. 1929. Coregonid fishes of the Great Lakes. Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish. 43:297-643. |
Lee, D.S., C.R. Gilbert, C.H. Hocutt, R.E. Jenkins, D.E. McAllister, and J.R. Stauffer, Jr. 1980. Atlas of North American freshwater fishes. North Carolina State Museum of Natural History Publication 1980-12. Raleigh, NC. x + 867 pp. |
NatureServe. 2018. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. Version 7.1. NatureServe. Arlington, Virginia. http://www.natureserve.org/explorer, accessed 27 July 2018. |
Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr. 2011. Peterson field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico, second edition. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Boston, MA. xix + 663 pp. |
Page, L.M., H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea, N.E. Mandrak, R.L. Mayden, and J.S. Nelson. 2013. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 7th Edition. American Fisheries Society, Spec. Publ. 34. Bethesda, MD. 243 pp. |
Scott, W.B. 1967. Freshwater fishes of eastern Canada, second edition. University of Toronto Press. Toronto, ON. xii + 137 pp. |
Scharpf, C. 2006. Annotated checklist of North American freshwater fishes, including subspecies and undescribed forms. Part II: Catostomidae through Mugilidae. American Currents 32(4):1-39. |
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