Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-601) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2007.
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 597.176/09711
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-bc
- ISBN
- 9780888644671 9780888648532
- LCCN
- QL626.5.B7
- LCCN Item number
- M36 2007eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- 1 electronic text (lxxiv, 620 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00974304 (OCoLC)767794374 (CaOOCEL)452908
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Copyright 5
- Dedication 6
- Sponsors 8
- Contents 18
- Foreword 24
- About this Book 28
- Purpose 28
- What Fishes Are Included? 29
- The Keys 30
- Abbreviations 31
- Species Accounts 31
- The Distinction Between Extinction and Extirpation 32
- Names of Fishes 32
- Conservation Comments 33
- Distribution Maps 33
- Illustrations 34
- Acknowledgements 35
- Funding 36
- Introduction 38
- Origins of the B.C. Freshwater Fish Fauna 38
- Preglacial 38
- Glaciation 40
- Deglaciation 46
- Postglacial Dispersal 47
- The Pacific Refugium 47
- The Great Plains Refugium 51
- The Bering Refugium 52
- Present Distribution 53
- The North Pacific Coastal Ecoregion 55
- The Northern Coastal Subregion 55
- The Central Coastal Subregion 56
- The Southern Coastal Subregion 57
- Glaciated Columbia Ecoregion 58
- The Lower Columbia Subregion 58
- The Upper Columbia Subregion 58
- The Upper Kootenay Subregion 58
- The Okanagan Subregion 59
- The Flathead Subregion 59
- The Interior Ecoregion 59
- The Middle Fraser Subregion 59
- The Upper Fraser Subregion 59
- The Four Rivers Subregion 60
- The Upper Skeena Subregion 60
- The Thompson Subregion 60
- The Upper Nass Subregion 60
- The Mackenzie Ecoregion 61
- The Lower Liard Subregion 61
- The Upper Liard Subregion 61
- The Lower Peace Subregion 61
- The Upper Peace Subregion 61
- Hay Subregion 62
- The Yukon Ecoregion 62
- The Yukon Lakes Subregion 62
- The Upper Taku and Iskut–Stikine Subregion 62
- Conservation of Freshwater Fishes 62
- What to Conserve? 64
- Species 64
- Parallel evolution 66
- Subspecies 69
- Populations 69
- Evolutionarily Significant Units 69
- Designatable Units 71
- Some Criteria for Listing Species and Populations 71
- Declining populations 72
- Restricted geographic ranges 72
- Habitat protection 73
- Scientific value 74
- Pictorial Family Key 75
- Lampreys (Petromyzontidae) 76
- Lampetra ayresii (River Lamprey) 78
- Lampetra macrostoma (Vancouver Lamprey) 83
- Lampetra richardsoni (Western Brook Lamprey) 87
- Lampetra tridentata (Pacific Lamprey) 91
- Sturgeon (Acipenseridae) 98
- Acipenser medirostris (Green Sturgeon) 100
- Acipenser transmontanus (White Sturgeon) 105
- Mooneyes (Hiodontidae) 114
- Hiodon alosoides (Goldeye) 115
- Herrings (Clupeidae) 120
- Alosa sapidissima (American Shad) 121
- Minnows (Cyprinidae) 126
- Acrocheilus alutaceus (Chiselmouth) 131
- Carassius auratus (Goldfish) 136
- Couesius plumbeus (Lake Chub) 140
- Cyprinus carpio (Common Carp) 147
- Hybognathus hankinsoni (Brassy Minnow) 151
- Margariscus margarita nachtriebi (Northern Pearl Dace) 156
- Mylocheilus caurinus (Peamouth) 161
- Notropis atherinoides (Emerald Shiner) 167
- Notropis hudsonius (Spottail Shiner) 171
- Phoxinus eos (Northern Redbelly Dace) 176
- Phoxinus neogaeus (Finescale Dace) 181
- Pimephales promelas (Fathead Minnow) 186
- Platygobio gracilis (Flathead Chub) 191
- Ptychocheilus oregonensis (Northern Pikeminnow) 195
- Rhinichthys cataractae (Longnose Dace) 201
- Rhinichthys falcatus (Leopard Dace) 208
- Rhinichthys osculus (Speckled Dace) 214
- Rhinichthys umatilla (Umatilla Dace) 219
- Richardsonius balteatus (Redside Shiner) 225
- Tinca tinca (Tench) 230
- Suckers (Catostomidae) 234
- Catostomus catostomus (Longnose Sucker) 237
- Catostomus columbianus (Bridgelip Sucker) 244
- Catostomus commersonii (White Sucker) 250
- Catostomus macrocheilus (Largescale Sucker) 256
- Catostomus platyrhynchus (Mountain Sucker) 262
- North American Catfishes (Ictaluridae) 270
- Ameiurus melas (Black Bullhead) 271
- Ameiurus natalis (Yellow Bullhead) 275
- Ameiurus nebulosus (Brown Bullhead) 279
- Pikes (Esocidae) 284
- Esox lucius (Northern Pike) 285
- Smelts (Osmeridae) 292
- Spirinchus thaleichthys (Longfin Smelt) 294
- Thaleichthys pacificus (Eulachon) 300
- Salmonids (Salmonidae) 306
- Salmoninae 308
- Oncorhynchus clarkii (Cutthorat Trout) 315
- Oncorhynchus clarkii clarkii (Coastal Cutthroat Trout) 316
- Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi (Westslope Cutthroat Trout) 324
- Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Pink Salmon) 331
- Oncorhynchus keta (Chum Salmon) 337
- Oncorhynchus kisutch (Coho Salmon) 343
- Oncorhynchus mykiss (Rainbow Trout) 350
- Oncorhynchus nerka (Sockeye Salmon) 362
- Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Chinook Salmon) 371
- Salmo salar (Atlantic Salmon) 380
- Salmo trutta (Brown Trout) 386
- Salvelinus confluentus (Bull Trout) 392
- Salvelinus fontinalis (Brook Trout) 401
- Salvelinus malma (Dolly Varden) 408
- Salvelinus namaycush (Lake Trout) 416
- Coregoninae 422
- Coregonus artedi (Cisco) 425
- Coregonus autumnalis (Arctic Cisco) 430
- Coregonus clupeaformis (Lake Whitefish) 435
- Coregonus nasus (Broad Whitefish) 442
- Coregonus sardinella (Least Cisco) 448
- Prosopium coulterii (Pygmy Whitefish) 454
- Prosopium cylindraceum (Round Whitefish) 461
- Prosopium williamsoni (Mountain Whitefish) 467
- Stenodus leucichthys nelma (Inconnu) 473
- Thymallinae 480
- Thymallus arcticus (Arctic Grayling) 481
- Trout-perch (Percopsidae) 486
- Percopsis omiscomaycus (Trout-perch) 487
- Cods (Gadidae) 492
- Lota lota (Burbot) 493
- Sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae) 500
- Culaea inconstans (Brook Stickleback) 502
- Gasterosteus aculeatus (Threespine Stickleback) 507
- Pungitius pungitius (Ninespine Stickleback) 515
- Sculpins (Cottidae) 522
- Cottus aleuticus (Coastrange Sculpin) 527
- Cottus asper (Prickly Sculpin) 532
- Cottus cognatus (Slimy Sculpin) 537
- Cottus confusus (Shorthead Sculpin) 544
- Cottus hubbsi (Columbia Sculpin) 550
- Cottus rhotheus (Torrent Sculpin) 556
- Cottus ricei (Spoonhead Sculpin) 561
- Cottus sp. (Rocky Mountain Sculpin) 565
- Sunfishes (Centrarchidae) 572
- Lepomis gibbosus (Pumpkinseed) 574
- Lepomis macrochirus (Bluegill) 579
- Micropterus dolomieu (Smallmouth Bass) 584
- Micropterus salmoides (Largemouth Bass) 589
- Pomoxis nigromaculatus (Black Crappie) 594
- Perches (Percidae) 598
- Perca flavescens (Yellow Perch) 599
- Sander vitreus (Walleye) 604
- Righteye Flounders (Pleuronectidae) 610
- Bibliography 612
- Appendix 1 678
- Glossary 680
- Index to Scientific and Common Names 690