Mylocheilus caurinus és una espècie de peix cipriniforme de la família dels ciprínids.

Morfologia Els mascles poden assolir 36 cm de longitud total.FishBase

Alimentació Menja principalment insectes aquàtics i llurs larves, i, en segon terme, insectes terrestres,Clemens, W.A., 1939. The fishes of Okanagan Lake and nearby waters. p. 27-38. A: A biological survey of Okanagan Lake, British Columbia. Fish. Res. Bd. Canada Bull. 56:70 p. crustacis planctònics, mol·luscs i peixets.Scott, W.B. i E.J. Crossman, 1973. Freshwater fishes of Canada. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. 184:1-966.

Depredadors Als Estats Units és depredat per Micropterus salmoides, Ptychocheilus oregonensis, Sander vitreus i Phoca vitulina,Laake, J.L., P. Browne, R.L. DeLong i H.R. Huber, 2002. Pinniped diet composition: a comparison of estimation models. Fish. Bull. 100:434-447. i, al Canadà, per Mergus merganser americanus.Munro, J.A. i W.A. Clemens, 1936. Food of the American merganser Mergus merganser americanus in British Columbia. Can. Field-Natur. 50(3):34-36.FishBase

Hàbitat És un peix demersal i de clima temperat.

Distribució geogràfica Es troba a Nord-amèrica.Agassiz, J.L.R., 1855. Synopsis of the ichthyological fauna of the Pacific slope of North America, chiefly from the collections made by the expedition under the command of Capt. C. Wilkes, with recent additions and comparisons with eastern types. Am. J. Sci. Arts, 2nd ser., 19(55):71-99; 19(56):215-232.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.Jordan, D.S. i B.W. Evermann, 1896. The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the isthmus of Panama. Part I. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 47:1-1240.Jordan, D.S., B.W. Evermann i H.W. Clark, 1930. Check list of the fishes and fishlike vertebrates of North and Middle America. Reprint Appendix X to Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 670 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.Moring, J.R., 1996. Fish discoveries by the Lewis and Clark and Red River Expeditions. Fish. Hist. 21(7):6-12.Richardson, J.S., T.J. Lissimore, M.C. Healey i T.G. Northcote, 2000. Fish communities of the lower Fraser River (Canada) and a 21-year contrast. Environ. Biol. of Fish 59:125-140.Scharpf, C., 2005. Annotated checklist of North America freshwater fishes, including subspecies and undescribed forms. American Currents 31(4):1-44.Wydoski, R.S. i R.R. Whitney, 1979. Inland fishes of Washington. University Washington Press. 220p.

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. Breder, C.M. i D.E. Rosen, 1966. Modes of reproduction in fishes. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City (Estats Units). 941 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. Schultz, L.P., 1935. The spawning habits of the chub, Mylocheilus caurinus - a forage fish of some value. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 65:143-147.

Zimmerman, M.P., 1999. Food habits of smallmouth bass, walleyes, and northern pikeminnow in the lower Columbia river basin during outmigration of juvenile anadromous salmonids. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 128(6):1036-1054.

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