Carmine shiner (Notropis percobromus) COSEWIC assessment and status report

Official title: COSEWIC Assessment and Update Status Report on the Carmine Shiner in Canada 

COSEWIC
Assessment and Update Status Report
on the
Carmine Shiner
Notropis Percobromus
in Canada

Carmine Shiner (Notropis percobromus)

Threatened
2006



COSEWIC
Committee on the Status
of Endangered Wildlife
in Canada
COSEWIC logo


COSEPAC

Comité sur la situation
des espèces en péril
au Canada


COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:

COSEWIC 2006. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the carmine shiner Notropis percobromus in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa.  vi + 29 pp.
(Species at Risk Status Reports)

Previous Reports:

COSEWIC 2001. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the carmine shiner Notropis percobromus and rosyface shiner Notropis rubellus in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. v + 17 pp.

Houston, J. 1994. COSEWIC status report on the rosyface shiner Notropis rubellus in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. 1-17 pp.

Production Note:

COSEWIC would like to acknowledge D.B. Stewart for writing the update status report on the carmine shiner Notropis percobromus in Canada, prepared under contract with Environment Canada, overseen and edited by Robert Campbell, Co-chair, COSEWIC Freshwater Fishes Species Specialist Subcommittee.

In 1994 and again in 2001, COSEWIC assessed minnows belonging to the rosyface shiner species complex, including those in Manitoba, as rosyface shiner (Notropis rubellus).

For additional copies contact:

COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa ON
K1A 0H3

Tel.: 819–953–3215
Fax: 819–994–3684
E-mail: COSEWIC/COSEPAC@ec.gc.ca
http://www.cosewic.gc.ca

Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur la tête carminée (Notropis percobromus) au Canada – Mise à jour.

Cover illustration:
Carmine shiner -- Carmine shiner from the Whitemouth River watershed in Manitoba (Photo courtesy of D. Watkinson, DFO, Winnipeg).

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2006
Catalogue No.: CW69-14/466-2006E-PDF
ISBN: 0-662-43237-1

 

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