Prosopium coulterii és una espècie de peix de la família dels salmònids i de l'ordre dels salmoniformes.

Morfologia Els mascles poden assolir 28 cm de longitud total. Nombre de vèrtebres: 49-55.FishBase

Alimentació Menja principalment crustacis i larves d'insectes aquàtics.Scott, W.B. i E.J. Crossman, 1973. Freshwater fishes of Canada. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. 184:1-966.

Depredadors És depredat per Lota lota.FishBase

Hàbitat És un peix d'aigua dolça, de clima temperat i bentopelàgic que viu entre 18-168 m de fondària.Morrow, J.E., 1980. The freshwater fishes of Alaska. University of. B.C. Animal Resources Ecology Library. 248p.

Distribució geogràfica Es troba a Nord-amèrica i Rússia.Reshetnikov, Y.S., N.G. Bogutskaya, E.D. Vasil'eva, E.A. Dorofeeva, A.M. Naseka, O.A. Popova, K.A. Savvaitova, V.G. Sideleva i L.I. Sokolov, 1997. An annotated check-list of the freshwater fishes of Russia. J. Ichthyol. 37(9): 687-736.Carl, G.C., W.A. Clemens i C.C. Lindsey, 1959. The freshwater fishes of British Columbia (3a. revisió). B.C. Prov. Mus. Handb. 5: 192 p.Dymond, J.R., 1947. A list of the freshwater fishes of Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, with keys. Roy. Ont. Mus. Zool. Misc. Publ. 1:36 p.Coker, G.A., C.B. Portt i C.K. Minns, 2001. Morphological and ecological characteristics of Canadian freshwater fishes. Can. Manuscr. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. Núm. 2554. 89p.Eigenmann, C.H., 1895. Results of explorations in western Canada and northwestern United States. Bull. U.S. Fish. Comm. 14:101-132.Eschmeyer, P.H. i R.M. Bailey, 1955. The pygmy whitefish, Coregonus coulteri, in Lake Superior. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 84:161-199.Heard, W.R. i W.L. Hartmann, 1966. Pygmy whitefish Prosopium coulteri in the Naknek River system of southwest Alaska. Fish. Bull. U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv. 65(3): 555-579.Hugg, D.O., 1996. MAPFISH georeferenced mapping database. Freshwater and estuarine fishes of North America. Life Science Software. Dennis O. i Steven Hugg, 1278 Turkey Point Road, Edgewater (Maryland), Estats Units.Jordan, D.S., B.W. Evermann i H.W. Clark, 1930. Check list of the fishes and fishlike vertebrates of North and Middle America. Reprint Appendix X to Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 670 p.McCart, P., 1965. Growth and morphometry of four British Columbia populations of pygmy whitefish (Prosopium coulteri). J. Fish. Res. Board Can. 22(5):1229-1259.McPhail, J.D. i C.C. Lindsey, 1970. Freshwater fishes of northwestern Canada and Alaska. Fish. Res. Board Can. Bull. 173:381 p.McPhail, J.D. i R. Carveth, 1993. Field key to the freshwater fishes of British Columbia. Fish Museum, Department of Zoology, U.B.C., Canadà, 239 p.Morrow, J.E., 1980. The freshwater fishes of Alaska. University of. B.C. Animal Resources Ecology Library. 248p.Myers, G.S., 1932. A new whitefish, Prosopium snyderi, from Crescent Lake, Washington. Copeia (2):62-64.Quast, J.C. i E.L. Hall, 1972. List of fishes of Alaska and adjacent waters with a guide to some of their literature. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS SSRF-658, 47 p.Wydoski, R.S. i R.R. Whitney, 1979. Inland fishes of Washington. University Washington Press. 220p.

Observacions És inofensiu per als humans.

Referències

Bibliografia Allendorf, F.W. i G.H. Thorgaard, 1984. Tetraploidy and the evolution of Salmonid fishes. p. 1-53. A: B.J. Turner (ed.) Evolutionary genetics of fishes. Plenum Publishing Corporation, Nova York. Anònim, 2001. Base de dades de la col·lecció de peixos del National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution). Smithsonian Institution - Division of Fishes. Anònim, 2002. Base de dades de la col·lecció de peixos del American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, NY 10024-5192, Estats Units. Booke, H.E., 1974. A cytotaxonomic study of the round whitefishes, genus Prosopium. Copeia (1):115-119. Eschmeyer, William N.: Genera of Recent Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, Califòrnia, Estats Units. iii + 697. . Any 1990.

Frolov, S.V., 1992. Some aspects of karyotype evolution in the Coregoninae. Pol. Arch. Hydrobiol. 39(3-4):509-515. Gold, J.R., W.J. Karel i M.R. Strand, 1980. Chromosome formulae of North American fishes. Prog. Fish Cult. 42:10-23.

Nelson, J.S., E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea i J.D. Williams, 2004. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 29, Bethesda, Maryland, Estats Units.

Rab, P. i M. Jankun, 1992. Chromosome studies of Coregonine fishes: a review. Pol. Arch. Hydrobiol. 39(3-4):523-532. Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea i W.B. Scott, 1980. A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Publ. (12)1-174. Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea i W.B. Scott, 1991. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Pub. (20):183 p.

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