Bonneville cisco

The Bonneville cisco (Prosopium gemmifer) is a species of cisco endemic to Bear Lake along the Utah-Idaho border, United States. It is one of three species of whitefish endemic to Bear Lake, the others being the Bear Lake whitefish and the Bonneville whitefish.[1][2]

Bonneville whitefish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Genus: Prosopium
Species:
P. gemmifer
Binomial name
Prosopium gemmifer
(Snyder, 1919)
Bonneville Cisco

The species is listed as a Wildlife Species of Concern by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.[3]

References
  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20060621154804/http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/fishing/bearlake.html
  2. https://dwrcdc.nr.utah.gov/rsgis2/Search/Display.asp?FlNm=prosgemm
  3. http://dwrcdc.nr.utah.gov/ucdc/ViewReports/sslist.htm


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