Species: Couesius plumbeus

Lake Chub

Species

Fishes

Encyclopedia of Puget Sound

Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Craniata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Cyprinidae

Genus

Couesius

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Source:
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Classification

Other Global Common Names

méné de lac

Informal Taxonomy

Animals, Vertebrates - Fishes - Bony Fishes - Minnows and Carps

Formal Taxonomy

Animalia - Craniata - Actinopterygii - Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae - Couesius - .

Ecology and Life History

Habitat Type Description

Freshwater

Migration

true - true - false - May migrate up to 1.6 km between separate spawning and nonspawning habitats (Scott and Crossman 1973).

Non-migrant

true

Locally Migrant

true

Food Comments

Eats insect larvae, zooplankton, and algae; sometimes fishes (Scott and Crossman 1973).

Reproduction Comments

Spawns in spring and summer. Eggs hatch in about 10 days. Sexually mature in 3rd or 4th year (Becker 1983).

Ecology Comments

Sometimes occurs in large schools (Becker 1983).

Length

Conservation Status

NatureServe Global Status Rank

Global Status Last Reviewed

1996-09-13

Global Status Last Changed

1996-09-13

Other Status

Distribution

Conservation Status Map

Global Range

H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - The most northern minnow in North America; the only minnow in Alaska (Page and Burr 2011). Range includes much of Canada and the extreme northern United States, south to Delaware River of New York, Lake Michigan (Illinois), and Platte River system in Wyoming, with relict populations in the upper Missouri River drainage, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming, and Twin Springs Creek (Mississippi River tributary), Iowa (Stasiak 1986, Bestgen et al. 1991, Page and Burr 2011).

Global Range Code

Global Range Description

>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)

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