Shortjaw cisco (Coregonus zenithicus) COSEWIC assessment and status report

Official title: COSEWIC Assessment and Update Status Report on the Shortjaw Cisco (Coregonus zenithicus) in Canada COSEWIC

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Table of contents

• Assessment Summary
• Executive Summary
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Distribution
• Protection
• Patterns of Phenotypic and Genetic Variability
• Population Size and Trends
• Habitat
• General Biology
• Limiting Factors
• Special Significance of the Species
• Evaluation
• Technical Summary
• Literature Cited
• The Author

COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:

Please note: Persons wishing to cite data in the report should refer to the report (and cite the author(s)); persons wishing to cite the COSEWIC status will refer to the assessment (and cite COSEWIC). A production note will be provided if additional information on the status report history is required.

COSEWIC 2003. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the shortjaw cisco Coregonus zenithicus. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. viii + 19 pp.

Todd, T.N. 2003. Update COSEWIC status report on the shortjaw cisco Coregonus zenithicus in Canada in COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the shortjaw cisco Coregonus zenithicus in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. 1-19 pp.

Production note:

The COSEWIC update status report within this publication is also catalogued as Contribution 1264 of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Great Lakes Science Center, Ann Arbor Michigan, U.S.A.

Previous reports:

Houston, J.J. 1987. COSEWIC status report on the shortjaw cisco Coregonus zenithicus in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, Ottawa. 15 pp.

Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur cisco à mâchoires égales (Coregonus zenithicus) au Canada – Mise à jour.

Cover illustration:
Shortjaw Cisco -- Photograph of a shortjaw cisco, Coregonus zenithicus, from Lake Nipigon, Ontario (332 mm, Aug. 1998). Courtesy of the author, Thomas N. Todd.

©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2003
Catalogue No. CW69-14/252-2003E-IN
ISBN 0-662-33563-5