Prosopium
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| Prosopium Fossil range: Late Miocene to Present[1] |
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Prosopium abyssicola |
Prosopium is a genus of fish in the trout/salmon family Salmonidae. The six species are primarily known from North America. However, the round whitefish P. cylindraceum is also widely found in the rivers of Siberia and the Pygmy Whitefish Prosopium coulterii is found in a certain lake in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, the Ekityki Lake.
Three of the species (Prosopium gemmifer, Prosopium spilonotus, and Prosopium abyssicola) are endemic to Bear Lake on the Utah-Idaho border.
[edit] References
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: p.560.
- Prosopium (TSN 162007). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on 6 June 2006.
- "Prosopium". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. January 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
- Molly Hallock and Paul E. Mongillo, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife "Washington State Status Report" (1998).
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