Coregonus reighardi Koelz, 1924
Shortnose cisco, Reighard's chub, Reighard cisco, Shortnose chub, Greaser (used by Stone, 1947:234), cisco à museau court (French)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1964 (Lake Ontario); 1982 (Lake Michigan); 1985 (Lake Huron)
Rediscovered on: 12-13 July 2022 (source)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Previously considered Missing (Gimenez Dixon, 1996; Jelks et al., 2008:395) or Extinct (Burkhead, 2012), with an estimated date of extinction of 1985 (Burkhead, 2012)
Distribution
Great Lakes, North America
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
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:
Burkhead, Noel M. (2012). Extinction Rates in North American Freshwater Fishes, 1900–2010. BioScience 62(9): 798-808.
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.
Dymond, J. R. (1926). The fishes of Lake Nipigon. Univ. Toronto Stud. Biol. Ser. 27, Publ. Ont. Fish. Res. Lab. 27: 1-108.
Gimenez Dixon, M. (1996). Coregonus reighardi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 09 July 2011.
Hubbs, C. L. and Lagler, K. F. (1958). Fishes of the Great Lakes region. Univ. Mich. Press, Ann Arbor, Mich. 213 pp.
Jelks, Howard L., Walsh, Stephen J., Burkhead, Noel M., Contreras-Balderas, Salvador, Díaz-Pardo, Edmundo, Hendrickson, Dean A., Lyons, J., Mandrak, Nicholas E., McCormick, Frank, Nelson, Joseph F., Platania, Steven P., Porter, Brady A., Renaud, Claude B., Schmitter-Soto, Juan Jacabo, Taylor, Eric B. and Warren, Melvin L. Jr. (2008). Conservation status of imperiled North American freshwater and diadromous fishes. Fisheries 33(8): 372-407.
Jobes, F. W. (1943). The age, growth, and bathymetric distribution of Reighard's chub, Leucichthys reighardi Koelz, in Lake Michigan. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 72 (1942): 108-135.
Koelz, W. N. (1929). Coregonid fishes of the Great Lakes. U.S. Bureau Fisheries Bulletin 43 (Part II): 297-643.
Mandrak, N. E., Pratt, T. C. and Reid, S. M. (2014). Evaluating the current status of deepwater ciscoes (Coregonus spp.) in Canadian waters of Lake Huron, 2002-2012, with emphasis on Shortjaw Cisco (C. zenithicus). DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Res. Doc. 2013/108. v + 12 pp.
McAllister, D. E. (1990). A List of the Fishes of Canada (National Museum of Natural Sciences) number 64
Ono, R. Dana, Williams, James D. and Wagner, Anne [with painting by Aleta Pahel]. (1983). Vanishing Fishes of North America. Washington DC: Stone Wall Press, Inc. 257 pp.
Parker, B. J. (1988). Status of the Shortnose Cisco, Coregonus reighardi, in Canada. Canadian Field- Naturalist 102(1): 92-96.
Pritchard, A. L. (1931). Taxonomic and life history studies of the ciscoes of Lake Ontario. Univ. Toronto Stud. Biol. Ser. 35, Publ. Ont. Fish. Res. Lab. 41: 78 pp.
Roth, B.M., Mandrak, N.E., Hrabik, T., Sass, G.G., and Peters, J. 2013. Fishes and decapod crustaceans of the Great Lakes basin. In Great Lakes Policy and Management. Edited by W.W. Taylor, A.J. Lynch, and N.J. Leonard. Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, MI. pp. 105-135.
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. 260-262]
Scott, 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.
Smith, S. H. (1964). Status of the deepwater cisco population of Lake Michigan. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 93(2): 155-163.
Stone, U. B. (1947). A study of the deep-water cisco fishery of Lake Ontario with particular reference to the bloater, Leucichthys hoyi (Gill). Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 74 (1944): 230-249.
Suckling, Kieran, Slack, Rhiwena and Nowicki, Brian. (2004). Extinct and the Endangered Species Act. Centre For Biological Diversity. 63 pp.
Webb, S. A. and Todd, T. N. (1995). Biology and Status of the Shortnose Cisco, Coregonus reighardi KOELZ in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Ergebnisse der limnologie 0(46): 71-77
Wells, L. (1968). Seasonal depth distribution of fish in southeastern Lake Michigan. U.S. Fish Wildlife Serv. Fish. Bull. 67(1): 1-15.
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 [4].
http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Coregonus-reighardi.html
https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/1658/shortnose-cisco
https://www.extinction.photo/species/shortnose-cisco/