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Bonneville cisco

Prosopium gemmifer

Classification

The Bonneville cisco (Prosopium gemmifer) is a freshwater cisco endemic to Bear Lake along the Utah-Idaho border of the United States. It is a popular ice-fishing target when the lake freezes and is caught by hand nets during the spawning season of January and February. Taxonomy The Bonneville cisco was first described by John Otterbein Snyder in the early 1900s.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 25