• PEARL DACE 

 A CARP 



WISCONSIN 



MICHIGAN 



Figure 15. — Carp, Cyprinus carpio ; pearl dace, Semotilus margarita. 



20. Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, carp (fig. 15) 



The carp, an exotic species, occurred rarely in the collections. 



Records by state and county: 



Michigan - Alger 26, 35; Marquette 41, 48, 49; Houghton 64, 67, 68; Ontonagon 99. 

 Wisconsin - Bayfield 150. 

 Minnesota - St. Louis 157. 



22. Semotilus margarita (Cope), pearl dace (fig. 15) 



The pearl dace was encountered rarely in streams tributary to Lake Superior. Records from 

 a Lake Michigan tributary indicate large numbers may be captured and retained in barrier traps, 

 but no trap in Lake Superior took large numbers of this species. 



Records by state and county: 



Michigan - Chippewa 1, 12, 13, 14; Luce 18, 19; Alger 33, 38; Marquette 40, 46, 48, 50, 53; 

 Baraga 55, 57. 



Wisconsin - Douglas 152, 153, 155. 



Minnesota - Lake 164. 



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