Semotilus corporalis

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• Description
• Taxonomy
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Overview

Family : Minnows or carps ; Inhabits gravel-bottomed and rubble-bottomed pools and runs of small to medium rivers , and also lake margins .

Common Names

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Description

Family Cyprinidae

Distribution: North America (northern Canada to southern Mexico), Africa, and Eurasia . Pharynx with 1-3 rows of teeth, each row with a maximum of 8 teeth. Usually thin lips , plicae or papillae absent; mouth sometimes suckerlike (Garra and Labeo). With or without barbels . Premaxilla usually borders the upper jaw making the maxilla entirely or almost entirely excluded from the gape. Usually protrusible upper jaw. Dorsal fin with spinelike rays in some. Primitive number of chromosomes 2n=50, some with 48; polyploidy exists. Maximum length at least 2.5 m to probably 3 m in Catlocarpio siamensis; many species less than 5 cm. Mainly non-guarders, but in some species males build nests and/or protect the eggs .The family Cyprinidae belongs to the Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes ) and the Order Cypriniformes. It contains 210 genera and 2010 species. It may be found in Brackish , and Freshwater environments and is primarily Primary freshwater. Many members of this family are used in the aquarium trade. Reproductively, most members of this family are nonguarders. The main mode of swimming of adult fish in this family is subcarangiform. Compared with other fish, the activity level of this family tends to be normal. Members of this family have been dated back to the Eocene epoch of the Tertiary period. This family may be found from 70° n to 34° s and 150° w to 170° e. Etymology of this family name : Greek, kyprinos = goldfish .

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of -3,533 to 0 meters (-11,591 to 0 feet).[1]

Biome: Fresh water . Demersal .

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Cheilonemus corporalis Mitchill, 1817
2. Chilonemus cataractus Baird, 1851
3. Cyprinus bullaris Rafinesque, 1817
4. Leuciscus argenteus Storer, 1839
5. Leuciscus nitidus Dekay, 1842
6. Leuciscus pulchellus Storer, 1839
7. Leucosomus rhotheus Cope, 1861
8. Squalius hyalope Cope, 1865

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Similar Species

Members of the genus Semotilus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 24 species and subspecies in this genus:

S. artomaculatus · S. atramaculatus · S. atrimaculatus · S. atromaculatus (Horned Dace) · S. atromaculatus atromaculatus (Horned Dace) · S. biguttatus · S. bullaris · S. cephalus · S. coporalis · S. corporalis (Roughnosed Chub) · S. diplemia · S. dorsalis · S. hammondii · S. lumbee (Sandhills Chub) · S. macrocephalus · S. margarita · S. margarita margarita · S. margarita nachtriebi · S. margaritus · S. marginata · S. notatus · S. sp · S. speciosus · S. thoreauianus (Dixie Chub)

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Further Reading

• A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Report presented at the eighty-ninth annual meeting, Clearwater, Fla., Sept. 16-18, 1959. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1960. ENG url p. 17.
• American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture, by G. Brown Goode...with numerous illustrations. New York, Standard book company, 1888. ENG url p. 427, p. 428, p. 428.
• American food and game fishes. A popular account of all the species found in America north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture, . by David Starr Jordan...and Barton Warren Evermann...illustrated with co Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & Co., 1908. ENG url p. 73.
• Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Nicolai, 1835- GER url p. 421.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 218, p. 221.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 8.
• Bulletin of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick. St. John, N. B., Natural History Society of New Brunswick. ENG url p. 40, p. 41.
• Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Washington, The Commission, Govt. Print. Off. ENG url p. 72.
• Distribution and origin of life in America, by Robert Francis Scharff. New York: Macmillan, 1912. ENG url p. 493, p. 51.
• Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, USA. 2905. ISBN: 0-940228-47-5.
• Fauna of New England. Boston, Printed for the [Boston] Society [of Natural History] from the Gurdon Saltonstall Fund, 1904-25. ENG url p. 24.
• Fishes of the vicinity of New York City / by John Treadwell Nichols, with an introduction by William K. Gregory. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1918. ENG url p. 103.
• Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. Lawrence, University of Kansas, 1946-1996. ENG url p. 78.
• Ontogeny and systematics of fishes: based on an international symposium dedicated to the memory of Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom / sponsored by the National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Dept. of Commer [New York?]: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, c1984. ENG url p. 742.
• Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr (1991). A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 432 p.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. [Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia] ENG url p. 154, p. 16, p. 18, p. 45, p. 523, p. 85, p. 87.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. [Washington, Biological Society of Washington] ENG url p. 159, p. 37, p. 40, p. 42.
• Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston [etc.]Boston Society of Natural History. ENG url p. 416.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] ENG url p. 203, p. 654.
• Report of the Commissioner - United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Washington, The Commission; U.S. Govt. Print. Off. ENG url p. 132, p. 14, p. 211, p. 219, p. 221, p. 223, p. 233, p. 234, p. 236, p. 246, p. 425, p. 533, p. 554, p. 805.
• Report upon United States Geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, in charge of First Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler [...] under the direction of the chief of engineers, U.S. Army. Published by authority of [...] the secretary of war in accordanc Washington: Govt. print. off., 1875-89. ENG url p. 638.
• Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al. 1980. A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. American Fisheries Society. Bethesda, Maryland, USA. 174.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. ENG url p. 10, p. 110, p. 218, p. 26, p. 41, p. 512, p. 515, p. 580, p. 63, p. 64, p. 64, p. 68, p. 92.
• Synopsis of the fishes of North America. By David S. Jordan and Charles H. Gilbert. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1882. ENG url p. 221.
• The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Prepared through the co-operation of the commissioner of fisheries and the superintendent of the tenth census by George Brown Goode and a staff of associates Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1884-87. ENG url p. 133, p. 134, p. 135, p. 136, p. 138, p. 139.
• The fishes of Illinois / Stephen Alfred Forbes and Robert Earl Richardson. [Springfield, Ill.]Published by authority of the State of Illinois, 1920. ENG url p. 121, p. 121, p. 123.

Notes

Contributors

• American Fisheries Society. Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 11, 2006.
• FishBase
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 10 providers.
• Kullander, Sven O. (from FishBase).
• NatureServe. 2003. Downloadable animal data sets. NatureServe Central Databases. Accessed February 6, 2005.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 02, 2008:

• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Fish Collection
• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• GBIF-Sweden: Fishes (NRM)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Atlantic Reference Centre (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (OBIS Canada)
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection
• University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History: Fish specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2501884
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-24352
• Fishbase Species ID: 2953
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 163375
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AFCJB41020
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 15726

Footnotes

1. Mean = 1,548.340 meters (5,079.856 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,700.510 based on 536 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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