Couesius plumbeus

Couesius plumbeus és una espècie de peix cipriniforme de la família dels ciprínids.The Taxonomicon

Morfologia Els mascles poden assolir 23 cm de longitud total. Nombre de vèrtebres: 39-44.FishBase

Alimentació Menja zooplàncton, algues, peixets i insectes terrestres i aquàtics.Scott, W.B. i E.J. Crossman, 1973. Freshwater fishes of Canada. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. 184:1-966.

Depredadors Al Canadà és depredat per Esox lucius, Lota lota i Salvelinus namaycush.FishBase

Hàbitat És un peix d'aigua dolça i de clima temperat (4 °C-25 °C).Baensch, H.A. i R. Riehl, 1995. Aquarien Atlas. Band 4. Mergus Verlag GmbH, Verlag für Natur- und Heimtierkunde, Melle, Alemanya. 864 p.

Distribució geogràfica Es troba a Nord-amèrica.Agassiz, J.L.R., 1850. Lake Superior. Its physical character, vegetation, and animals, compared with those of other and similar regions. Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, Boston, Estats Units. 428 p.Brown, J.H., U.T. Hammer i G.D. Koshinsky, 1970. Breeding biology of the lake chub, Couesius plumbeus, at Lac la Ronge, Saskatchewan. J. Fish. Res. Board Can. 27:1005-1015.Bruce, W.J. i R.F. Parsons, 1976. Age, growth and maturity of Lake Chub Couesius plumbeus in 66 Brook, ten Mile Lake, western Labrador. Fish. Mar. Serv. Tech. Serv. (683):9p.Carl, G.C., W.A. Clemens i C.C. Lindsey, 1959. The freshwater fishes of British Columbia (3a. revisió). B.C. Prov. Mus. Handb. 5: 192 p.Coker, G.A., C.B. Portt i C.K. Minns, 2001. Morphological and ecological characteristics of Canadian freshwater fishes. Can. Manuscr. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. Núm. 2554. 89p.Cox, P., 1896. Catalogue of the marine and freshwater fishes of New Brunswick. Bull. Nat. His. Soc. New Brunswick 13:62-75.Dymond, J.R., 1926. The fishes of Lake Nipigon. Univ. Toronto Stud. Biol. Ser. 27, Publ. Ont. Fish. Res. Lab. 27:1-108.Heufelder, G.R. i L.A. Fuiman, 1982. Family Cyprinidae, carps and minnows. p. 174-344. A: N.A. Auer (ed.) Identification of larval fishes of the Great Lakes basin with emphasis on the Lake Michigan drainage. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Special Publ. 82-3, 744 p.Hugg, D.O., 1996. MAPFISH georeferenced mapping database. Freshwater and estuarine fishes of North America. Life Science Software. Dennis O. i Steven Hugg, 1278 Turkey Point Road, Edgewater (Maryland), Estats Units.Jordan, D.S., 1893. Description of a new species of cyprinoid fishes, Couesius greeni, from the head waters of Fraser River in British Columbia. Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 16(938):313-314.McAllister, D.E., 1964. Fish Collections from eastern Hudson bay. Can. Field-Nat. 78:167-178.McPhail, J.D. i C.C. Lindsey, 1970. Freshwater fishes of northwestern Canada and Alaska. Fish. Res. Board Can. Bull. 173:381 p.McPhail, J.D. i R. Carveth, 1993. Field key to the freshwater fishes of British Columbia. Fish Museum, Department of Zoology, U.B.C., Canadà, 239 p.Morrow, J.E., 1980. The freshwater fishes of Alaska. University of. B.C. Animal Resources Ecology Library. 248p.Nelson, J.S. i M.J. Paetz, 1992. The fishes of Alberta. The University of Alberta Press, Canadà.Quast, J.C. i E.L. Hall, 1972. List of fishes of Alaska and adjacent waters with a guide to some of their literature. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS SSRF-658, 47 p.Rempel, L.L. i D.G. Smith, 1998. Postglacial fish dispersal from the Mississippi refuge to the Mackenzie River basin. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 55:893-899.Scott, W.B. i E.J. Crossman, 1959. The freshwater fishes of New Brunswick: a checklist with distributional notes. Contrib. Roy. Ont. Mus. Div. Zool. Palaeont. 51:37 p.

Observacions Produeix híbrids amb Rhinichthys cataractae al llac Superior.Hubbs, C.L. i K.F. Lagler, 1949. Fishes of Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Michigan. Pap. Mich. Acad. Sci. Arts Lett. (1947) 33:73-133.

Referències

Bibliografia Anònim, 2001. Base de dades de la col·lecció de peixos del National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution). Smithsonian Institution - Division of Fishes. Anònim, 2002. Base de dades de la col·lecció de peixos del American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, NY 10024-5192, Estats Units. Bailey, R.M., E.A. Lachner, C.C. Lindsey, C.R. Robins, P.M. Roedel, W.B. Scott i L.P. Woods, 1960. A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. (Segona edició). Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Publ. 2:1-102. Bailey, R.M., J.E. Fitch, E.S. Herald, E.A. Lachner, C.C. Lindsey, C.R. Robins i W.B. Scott, 1970. A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Tercera edició. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Pub. 6:150 p.

Nelson, J.S., E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea i J.D. Williams, 2004. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 29, Bethesda, Maryland, Estats Units.

Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea i W.B. Scott, 1980. A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Publ. (12)1-174. Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea i W.B. Scott, 1991. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Pub. (20):183 p.

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