BROOK STICKLEBACK (CULAEA INCONSTANS [KIRTLAND 1841]), A NEW ADDITION TO THE UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN FISH FAUNA

Brook stickleback (Culaea inconstans) is a small gasterosteid fish native to Arctic and Atlantic drainages in North America. The species native range extends west from Nova Scotia to British Columbia and south from the Northwest Territories to southern Ohio drainages, including the Mississippi-Misso...

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Published in:The Great Basin naturalist 1996-07, Vol.56 (3), p.281-282
Main Authors: Modde, Timothy, Haines, G. Bruce
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Culaea inconstans
Freshwater
Freshwater fishes
Game fishes
Gasterosteidae
Marine fishes
River basins
Wetlands
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Summary:Brook stickleback (Culaea inconstans) is a small gasterosteid fish native to Arctic and Atlantic drainages in North America. The species native range extends west from Nova Scotia to British Columbia and south from the Northwest Territories to southern Ohio drainages, including the Mississippi-Missouri River above the confluence of the Illinois River (Scott and Crossman 1973). An isolated, and presumably relic, population occurs in the Canadian River drainage of New Mexico (Koster 1957). Between July and October 1995 we collected 5 brook stickleback from the middle Green River, Uintah County, Utah, the 1st record for the species in Utah (catalog number LFL 24871, Larval Fish Laboratory, Colorado State University). Brook stickleback was first reported elsewhere in the upper Colorado River drainage in 3 small tributaries of the Elk River (South, Coleman, and Deep creeks) in northwestern Colorado in 1993 (Jake Bennett, Colorado Division of Wildlife, personal communication).
ISSN:0017-3614