Western Silvery Minnow (Hybognathus argyritis): COSEWIC assessment and status report
Official title: COSEWIC Assessment and Update Status Report on the Western Silvery Minnow Hybognathus argyritis in Canada
Table of contents
- COSEWIC Assessment Summary
- COSEWIC Executive Summary
- Species Information
- Distribution
- Habitat
- Biology
- Population Sizes and Trends
- Limiting Factors and Threats
- Special Significance of the Species
- Existing Protection or Other Status Designations
- Technical Summary
- Acknowledgements
- Authorities Consulted
- Information Sources
- Biographical Summary of Report Writers
- Collections Examined
Endangered 2008
COSEWIC
Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada
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. 2008. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the western silvery minnow Hybognathus argyritis in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vii + 38 pp.
Previous report:
COSEWIC. 2001. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the western silvery minnow Hybognathus argyritis in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vii + 14 pp.
Houston, J.J.P. 1997. COSEWIC status report on the western silvery minnow Hybognathus argyritis in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. 14 pp.
Production note:
COSEWIC would like to acknowledge M.K. Lowdon, D.A. Watkinson, and W.G. Franzin for writing the update status report on the western silvery minnow, Hybognathus argyritis in Canada, prepared under contract with Environment Canada, overseen and edited by R. Campbell and C. Renaud, COSEWIC Freshwater Fishes Specialist Subcommittee Co-Chairs.
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
Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur le méné d’argent de l’Ouest (Hybognathus argyritis) au Canada. – Mise à jour.
Cover illustration:
Western silvery minnow -- Illustration by Summers Scholl (from Wyoming Natural Diversity Data Base by permission - http://www.uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/wyndd/Animals/Fish/Minnows.htm, accessed 3/31/2007).
©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2008.
Catalogue No. CW69-14/404-2008E-PDF
ISBN 978-0-662-48893-4
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