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Coregonus zenithicus (Longjaw cisco; Light-back tullibee; Lake Superior longjaw; Shortjaw cisco; Shortjaw chub; Pale-back tullibee)

Synonyms: Argyrosomus zenithicus; Leucichthys entomophagus; Leucichthys zenithicus
Language: Danish; French; Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

The shortjaw cisco (Coregonus zenithicus) is a North-American freshwater whitefish in the salmon family. Adult fish range to about 30 cm (12 in) in length and are silver, tinged with green above and paler below. One of the members of the broader Coregonus artedi complex of ciscoes, it is distributed widely in the deeper lakes of Canada, but populations in the Great Lakes have been declining and it is no longer present in Lakes Michigan, Huron, and Erie. It feeds mainly on crustaceans and insect larvae and spawns in the autumn on the lake bed. It is part of the important cisco (chub) fishery in the Great Lakes. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as "vulnerable". Shortjaw cisco have however evolved from the cisco Coregonus artedi independentl
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Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Coregonus zenithicus

Attributes

Adult Length [1]  15 inches (37 cm)
Brood Dispersal [1]  In the open
Brood Egg Substrate [1]  Litho-pelagophils
Brood Guarder [1]  No
Litter Size [1]  19,000
Maximum Longevity [1]  11 years
Diet [2]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [1]  4 years

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Algonquin Provincial Park IV 1868802 Ontario, Canada
Isle Royale Biosphere Reserve Ib 571799 Michigan, United States
Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve 470167 Ontario, Canada  
Wood Buffalo National Park II 11038545 Alberta, Canada

Prey / Diet

Mysis relicta (opossum shrimp)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cyathocephalus truncatus[4]
Proteocephalus exiguus[4]
Proteocephalus longicollis[4]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 3Status of the shortjaw cisco (Coregonus zenithicus) in Lake Superior, Michael H. Hoff & Thomas N. Todd, Ann. Zool. Fennici 41: 147–154 (2004)
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0