Coregonus alpenae (Koelz, 1924)
Longjaw cisco, Longjaw, Longjaw chub, cisco à grande bouche (French), Salmoneja Boquigrande (Spanish; Castilian)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Leucichthys alpenae Koelz, 1924
May be taxonomically invalid (Lee et al. 1980; Todd et al. 1981; Page & Burr, 1991; Robins et al. 1991). Considered valid by other authorities (Smith, 1985; Scott & Crossman, 1998). Some of these references cannot be found in the bibliography below since they are cited by (World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1996) but not included in that publication's bibliography.
Conservation Status
Extinct (Miller et al., 1989; Williams et al., 1989:13; WCMC, 1996b)
Last record: 1975 (Suckling et al. 2004); 1978 (World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1996)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories (United States) and Hudson Bay and the Great Lakes basin (except Lakes Ontario and Erie) (Canada)
Was reported from Lake Erie by (Scott & Smith, 1962), but noted as having not been recorded there since 1957 by (Scott et al., 1973:236).
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
2 paratypes
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Koelz, Walter. (1924). Two new species of cisco from the Great Lakes. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology 146: 1-8.
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Bangham, R. V. (1955). Studies on fish parasites of Lake Huron and Manitoulin Island. Amer. Midland Natur. 53(1): 184-194.
Bersamin, S. V. (1958). A preliminary study of the nutritional ecology and food habits of the chubs (Leucichthys spp.) and their relation to the ecology of Lake Michigan. Pap. Mich. Acad. Sci. Arts Lett. 43: 107-118.
Deacon, James E., Kobetich, Gail, Williams, James D. and Contreras, Salvador. (1979). Fishes of North America endangered, threatened, or of special concern: 1979. Fisheries 4(2): 29-44.
Groombridge, B. (1992). Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth’s Living Resources. Report compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Chapman and Hall, London.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). (1994). 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Hubbs, C. L. and Lagler, K. F. (1958). Fishes of the Great Lakes region. Univ. Mich. Press, Ann Arbor, Mich. 213 pp.
IUCN. (1990). 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1986). 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1988). IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Jobes, F. W. (1949). The age, growth, and distribution of the longjaw cisco, Leucichthys alpenae Koelz, in Lake Michigan. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 76 (1946): 215-247.
Koelz, Walter. (1929). Coregonid fishes of the Great Lakes. Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish. 43, 1927, 2, doc. 1048: 297-643.
Lyons, J., P. A. Cochran, and D. Fago. (2000). Wisconsin fishes 2000: status and distribution. University of Wisconsin Sea Grant, Madison.
Miller, Robert Rush, Williams, James D. and Williams, Jack E. (1989). Extinctions of North American fishes during the past century. Fisheries 14(6): 22-38.
Page, L. M. and Burr, B. M. (1991). A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
Robins, C. R., Bailey, R. M., Bond, C. E., Brooker, J. R., Lachner, E. A., Lea, R. N. and Scott, W. B. (1991). Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Fifth edition. Special Publication No. 20. Bethseda, Maryland: American Fisheries Society.
Scott, William Beverley, Crossman, E. J., Odum, Anker (illustrator) and Buerschaper, Peter (illustrator). (1973). Freshwater fishes of Canada. Fisheries Research Board of Canada Bulletin 184: xi + 966 pp. [mainly pp. 234-236]
Scorr, William Beverley and Smith, S. H. (1962). The occurrence of the longjaw cisco, Leucichthys alpenae, in Lake Erie. J. Fish. Res. Board Canada 19(6): 1013-1023.
Suckling, Kieran, Slack, Rhiwena and Nowicki, Brian. (2004). Extinct and the Endangered Species Act. Centre For Biological Diversity. 63 pp.
Todd, T. N., Smith, G. R. and Cable, L. E. (1981). Environmental and genetic contributions to morphological differentiation in ciscoes (Coregoninae) of the Great Lakes. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 38: 59-67.
USFWS. (1983). Deregulation of the Longjaw Cisco and the Blue Pike. United States Fish and Wildife Service, September 2, 1983, 48 FR 39941.
Williams, Jack E., Johnson, James E., Hendrickson, Dean A., Contreras-Balderas, Salvador, Williams, James D., Navarro-Mendoza, Miguel, McAllister, Don E. and Deacon, James E. (1989). Fishes of North America endangered, threatened, or of special concern: 1989. Fisheries 14(6): 2-20 [13].
WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). (1996a). Coregonus alpenae. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 09 July 2011.
WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). (1996b). Coregonus alpenae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T5361A11123067. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T5361A11123067.en. Accessed on 30 June 2022.