﻿50 CHECK LIST OF FISHES OF THE DOMINION. 



77. Argyrosomus pusillus ]3ean. 

 Least Whitefish. 

 Fluviatile. 



Barter Island, off Alaska, near the mouth of the Mackenzie River (Scofield, 1899): occurs in 

 the Yukon River and "practically all of Alaska except the south-eastern portion" (Jordan 

 and Evermann) : will perhaps be found in British Columbia. 



78. Argyrosomus lucidus Richardson. 

 Great-Bear-Lake-Herring. 

 Lacustrine and fluviatile. 



Mackenzie River and tributaries: Great Bear Lake (Richardson, 1836, as Salmo (Coregonus) 

 lucidus): Great Bear Lake River (Gilbert, 1894, as Coregonus lucidus): Herschel Lsland 

 (Scofield, 1899): Arctic Red River (Preble, 1903-4). 



79. Argyrosomus laurettae Bean. 



Lauretta Cisco. 



Fluviatile. 



Yukon River northward to Point Barrow, Alaska: perhaps British Columbia. 



80. Argyrosomus prognathus* H. M. .Smith. 

 Bloater: Long .law. 



Lacustrine. 



Basins of the Great Lakes, with the possible exception of Lake Erie. 



81. Argyrosomus nigripinnis Gill. 

 Blackfin: Bluefin. 

 Lacustrine. 



Lake Michigan and certain lakes of Wisconsin and Minnesota: also reported from Lake 

 .Superior.! 



82. Argyrosomus tullibee Richardson. 

 Tullibee. 



Lacustrine. 



Occurs in Lakes Erie, Superior, and Michigan; and in Lake Onondaga, State of New York: 

 also in Lake of the Woods, and in the Provinces' of Manitoba and Saskatchewan — fre- 

 quenting the Qu'Appelle Lakes near the middle of the chain: recorded from Pine Island 

 Lake and from Albany River region (Richardson, 1836, as Salmo (Coregonus) tullibee). 



83. Stenodus mackenzii Richardson. 

 Inconnu. 



Fluviatile and lacustrine. 



Mackenzie and Yukon Rivers and their tributary waters: also recorded from Salt River 

 (Richardson, 1823, as Salmo mackenzii — the type), and from Great Slave Lake (Richard- 

 son, 1836): perhaps identical with S. leucichthijs of Siberia. 



*"This species and A. osmeriformis have been confounded under the name Coregonus hoyi, though neither much 

 resembles the original of that name." Jordan and Evermann. A. hoyi, unless to be found in Lake Superior does 

 not seem to belong to our waters; but is given provisionally in the Check List imder number 76. 



f "It has also been reported from Lake Superior, but all the specimens of so-called blackfin or bluefin that we have 

 seen from that Lake are the long jaw" [A. prognalhus]. Jordan and Evermann. 



