Carpiodes cyprinus
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Carpiodes cyprinus , engl. Quillback, French Couette or spiked carp sucker belongs to the family of the suction carp and is native to North America. It isclosely relatedto the Highfin Carpsucker ( Carpiodes velifer ) and the River Carpsucker ( Carpiodes carpio ).
description
The English name Quillback comes from the strikingly long filament that protrudes from the dorsal fin. Carpiodes cyprinus is on average 50 to 65 centimeters long. The largest quillback ever caught with a fishing rod, weighing 3.40 kilograms and 61 centimeters in length, was captured in Deux-Montagnes Lake in Canada in 2002. They have more compact bodies than other representatives of the suction carp and are more similar to the carp . It can be clearly distinguished from carp because it lacks barbels around its mouth. Its color is mostly silver and it has large scales.
Way of life
Carpiodes cyprinus feeds mainly on soil-dwelling insect larvae on the bottom of the water. Carpiodes cyprinus is oviparous . The fish can live up to eleven years in the wild.
Occurrence
The quillback is widespread in the central and eastern United States between latitudes 54 ° N – 30 ° N. It occurs in the Great Lakes to the St. Lorenz River to Hudson Bay in Canada . Its original range extends from Québec and Alberta in the north to Louisiana in the south, mainly around the Mississippi River and its tributaries. On the east coast you can find the Quillback in the Delaware River to the Altamaha River in Georgia . In the catchment area of the Gulf of Mexico from the Apalachicola River to the Pearl River in the state of Mississippi. Carpiodes cyprinus lives mainly in rivers, barrages, streams and clear lakes with sandy or muddy bottoms, where it searches the bottom for food. It makes up a large part of the biomass in many warm water rivers in North America .
Economical meaning
In many places, C. cyprinus fishing is of little economic importance. Carpiodes cyprinus , C. velifer and C. carpio are rarely captured by anglers due to their eating habits. Occasionally they are caught with baits such as worms, minnows or artificial bait. Since it is moderately tolerant of water pollution and relatively tolerant of water degradation , it is not very suitable as an indicator fish for healthy environmental conditions such as the Black Redhorse ( Moxostoma duquesnei ), which is highly sensitive to disturbances.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ a b c d e f g Carpiodes cyprinus on Fishbase.org (English)
- ^ Fishing World Records Carpiodes cyprinus
- ^ Genomics Senescence - Age of Carpiodes cyprinus
- ^ NAS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species
- ↑ Iowa Fish Atlas Quillback Carpsucker - Carpiodes cyprinus ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ US Environmental Protection Agency - Biological Indicators of Watershed Health
Web link
- Carpiodes cyprinus inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: NatureServe, 2011. Retrieved December 19, 2013.