Annotated Checklist of the Fishes of Canada

Fishes of Canada: An Annotated Checklist

Brian W. Coad

Revised: 09 May 2008

Introduction Links to Families Criteria for Inclusion Sources Abbreviations Arrangement of Taxa Comments Higher Classification Annotated Checklist Rejected Records Literature Cited

Introduction

This work attempts a definitive listing of the scientific, English and French names of fishes for Canada. New species and species new to this ichthyofauna are still being discovered and the taxonomy changes over time. The list has over 276 taxa not given in McAllister (1990) and over 242 taxa not given in Coad et al. (1995), the last complete listings of this ichthyofauna. The list published by the American Fisheries Society (AFS) for North America (Nelson et al., 2004) encompasses Mexico, the U.S.A. and Canada but naturally contains many species not found in Canadian waters, does not extend to depths below 200 metres in the sea, and has French names only for species found in Québec.

Readers should note that this is a work in progress. Questions marks indicate areas still under study. Currently the list comprises 5 Classes, 50 Orders, 226 Families and 1414 species (9 May 2008).

Illustrations and descriptions on most of these species may be found in Coad et al. (1995) and at FishBase (www.fishbase.org). The taxa new to Canada listed here are, for the most part, deepsea or mesopelagic species captured by research vessels.

Links to Families

The following alphabetical list of family names has links; for common and scientific names of species, a simple word search can be done.

Acanthuridae Acipenseridae Acropomatidae Agonidae Albulidae Alepisauridae Alepocephalidae Alopiidae Amiidae Ammodytidae Anarhichadidae Anguillidae Anoplogastridae Anoplopomatidae Anotopteridae Antennariidae Apogonidae Argentinidae Ariommatidae
Atherinidae Aulorhynchidae

Balistidae Barbourisiidae Bathyclupeidae Bathylagidae Bathymasteridae Batrachoididae Berycidae Blenniidae Bothidae Bramidae Bregmacerotidae Bythitidae

Callionymidae Caproidae Carangidae Carapidae Carcharhinidae Caristiidae Catostomidae Caulophrynidae Centrarchidae Centriscidae Centrolophidae Ceratiidae Cetomimidae Cetorhinidae Chaetodontidae Characidae Chaunacidae Chiasmodontidae Chimaeridae Chlorophthalmidae Cichlidae Clinidae Clupeidae Congridae Coryphaenidae Cottidae Cryptacanthodidae Cyclopteridae Cynoglossidae Cyprinidae

Dactylopteridae Dalatiidae Dasyatidae Derichthyidae Diodontidae Diretmidae Draconettidae

Echeneidae Elopidae Embiotocidae Engraulidae Epigonidae Esocidae Eurypharyngidae Evermannellidae Exocoetidae

Fistulariidae Fundulidae

Gadidae Gasterosteidae Gempylidae Gigantactinidae Gobiesocidae Gobiidae Gonostomatidae Grammicolepididae

Halosauridae Hemiramphidae Hemitripteridae Hexagrammidae Hexanchidae Himantolophidae Hiodontidae Holocentridae

Icosteidae Ictaluridae Ipnopidae Istiophoridae

Kyphosidae

Labridae Lamnidae Lampridae Lepisosteidae Linophrynidae Lobotidae Lophiidae Loricariidae Lotidae Lutjanidae Luvaridae

Macrouridae Macrurocyttidae Malacanthidae Megalopidae Melamphaidae Melanocetidae Melanonidae Merlucciidae Microstomatidae Mirapinnidae Molidae Monacanthidae Moridae Moringuidae Moronidae Mugilidae Mullidae Muraenidae Myctophidae Myliobatidae Myxinidae

Nemichthyidae Neoscopelidae Nettastomatidae Nomeidae Notacanthidae Notosudidae

Odontaspididae Ogcocephalidae Omosudidae Oneirodidae Ophichthidae Ophidiidae Opisthoproctidae Oreosomatidae Osmeridae Osphronemidae Ostraciidae

Paralepididae Paralichthyidae Pentacerotidae Percichthyidae Percidae Percopsidae Peristediidae Petromyzontidae Pholidae Phosichthyidae Phycidae Platytroctidae Pleuronectidae Poeciliidae Polymixiidae Polyodontidae Polyprionidae Pomacanthidae Pomacentridae Pomatomidae Priacanthidae Pseudotriakidae Psychrolutidae Ptilichthyidae

Rachycentridae Rajidae Regalecidae Rhamphocottidae Rhincodontidae Rhinochimaeridae Rondeletiidae

Saccopharyngidae Salmonidae Sciaenidae Scomberesocidae Scombridae Scombrolabracidae Scopelarchidae Scophthalmidae Scorpaenidae Scyliorhinidae Scytalinidae Sebastidae Serranidae Serrivomeridae Setarchidae Sparidae Sphyraenidae Sphyrnidae Squalidae Squatinidae Stephanoberycidae Sternoptychidae Stichaeidae Stomiidae Stromateidae Stylephoridae Symphysanodontidae Synaphobranchidae Syngnathidae Synodontidae

Tetragonuridae Tetraodontidae Thaumatichthyidae Torpedinidae Trachichthyidae Trachipteridae Triakidae Trichiuridae Trichodontidae Triglidae

Umbridae

Xiphiidae

Zaproridae Zeidae Zoarcidae

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Criteria for Inclusion

The criteria for inclusion within the list include presence in Canadian fresh and marine waters, in marine waters out to the border with neighbouring states or to the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and whatever depths are reached at that point, native taxa including subspecies, taxa regarded by some authors as synonyms but not by others, extinct or extirpated taxa, taxa as yet unnamed scientifically, exotic taxa including those not known to be maintaining reproducing populations, records of larvae, museum records not recently verified, taxa not identified to species but representing a genus not otherwise known in Canada (there are many museum records where only the genus is given – these are potentially new species records if the genus is not monotypic but usually they represent a specimen unidentifiable to a recorded species by virtue of missing anatomical characters, lack of expertise in the group, larval form, etc, and thus are not listed here), and poorly documented records that are not inherently unlikely (i.e. records having no voucher specimen deposited in a museum and/or no accurate locality data but mentioned in literature sources and occurring in neighbouring regions). An occasional record is of remains (a skeleton on a beach, gut contents) and these too are recorded even though it may be argued that some skeletons could be discards and gut contents could be from well traveled fish having dined outside Canada. Records from the weathership Ocean Station Papa (50˚N, 145˚W) located west of the British Columbia coast were included in Jean et al. (1981), McAllister (1990), Gillespie (1993) and Coad et al. (1995) and are repeated here. Some fish recorded in the Canadian literature are not definitely known from Canadian waters as defined above but are included with a comment to that effect. The aim is to include an analysis of all records and thus be a complete treatment.

It is evident from extralimital literature and museum record sources that many species may be found eventually in Canadian waters as defined here. These will mostly be oceanic, deepsea and mesopelagic species caught from research vessels.

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Sources

The chief sources for these records are the books Scott and Crossman (1973), Hart (1973), Scott and Scott (1988), McAllister (1990), Coad et al. (1995), and Collette and Klein-MacPhee (2002); research papers as listed under a particular species, notably Moore et al. (2003); records in museums as documented; and the internet sites the “East Coast of North America Strategic Assessment Project” ( http://www-orca.nos.noaa.gov/projects/ecnasap/overall_species.html) and the “Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas” (Atlantic Reference Centre Specimen Collection of the Huntsman Marine Science Centre, St. Andrews, New Brunswick ( http://gmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/aconow95/aconscripts/gmbis.html). The latter work in particular added many new records from mesopelagic waters off Nova Scotia (see also Themelis (1996)). Note that links may change with time or be replaced. The ones listed here were active at the noted time of download.

The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (www.cosewic.gc.ca/index.htm) assesses the status of species considered to be at risk in Canada and is referred to in the text under its acronym COSEWIC. The last version examined for this work is that of May 2004 but taxa are both updated and new ones considered at regular intervals. Taxa may be Extinct, Extirpated, Endangered, Threatened, Special Concern, Not at Risk or Data Deficient. Extinct is a world-wide status but the others refer to Canadian populations only unless that taxon is only found in Canada.

Some museum records may eventually be published separately by other authors; the point of first discovery by me is the one recorded here.

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Abbreviations

Acronyms for museum records as are follows:-

MCZ = Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University ( www.mcz.harvard.edu/Departments/Fish/), information downloaded September 2003.

USNM = United States National Museum (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington (www.nmnh.si.edu/vert/fishcat/), downloaded September 2003.

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Arrangement of Taxa

The arrangement is mostly self-explanatory. The higher classification generally follows the simple list in Eschmeyer's "Catalog of Fishes", published in 1998 but available in an updated on-line version (www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/, downloaded October 2004) as it covers all families of fishes. Further discussion on higher classification can be found in Nelson (1994), although this is now somewhat dated, and to a more limited extent in the AFS list (Nelson et al., 2004) which does not cover all families recorded here. Occasional comment is made in the current list on higher classification as authors disagree on splitting and combining families.

The number in parentheses after a family, order or class is the number of species in that category. Subspecies are not included in this count. Species are alphabetical by scientific name within families. Subspecies are usually included within the Comments section under each species but certain subspecies have a long history of distinct usage in faunal accounts and have separate accounts.

Spellings of scientific names, authors and dates, synonymies, and references to conflicting opinions on species validity and generic placements may be found in Eschmeyer's "Catalog of Fishes" as referenced above and are easily searched in the on-line version. Text Comments stating “by authors” or similar general, unreferenced statements can be taken as referring to this work where conflicting views are indicated with literature sources. This work should be consulted by anyone reading older literature and encountering genus and species combinations and scientific names that do not appear in this list. Complete synonymies and all genus/species combinations used in Canadian or other relevant literature are not cited in the current list although some selected comments are given. Taxa described from Canada but now regarded as synonymous are listed without extensive referencing – references can be found in Eschmeyer’s on-line Catalog. Type localities of valid species described from Canadian waters are listed for interest in brief; again Eschmeyer’s on-line work gives further details. The AFS list (Nelson et al., 2004) also has comments on changes in scientific names from several earlier versions of the list and from recent literature usage.

Some species have numerous common names but one is recommended here for each species in English and French. Common names are taken mostly from the AFS list (Nelson et al., 2004) for reasons of harmony and communication. However, the AFS list does not contain some deepwater species as noted above nor are French names given for species outside Québec. Some AFS names are confusing in a Canadian list but have a history of use, e.g. Lycodes lavalaei has the AFS common names Newfoundland eelpout and lycode du Labrador, different in English and French. Additionally there is a Lycodes terraenovae in this list (but not the AFS list) that logically would be called Newfoundland eelpout. The mismatch between English and French common names extends across a suite of species and these are pointed out.

Common names for species not mentioned in the AFS list are from McAllister (1990). In a few cases the AFS list uses English common names at variance with those in McAllister. The French common name for species outside Québec may have been coined based on the English name (now changed) and may not match. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency ( www.inspection.gc.ca) also lists scientific and common names of fishes from a commercial standpoint. A secondary source for English and French common names is FishBase (www.fishbase.org) although it should be noted that these names are often Eurocentric. This source is used for fish that are recent records for Canada and so do not have local common names.

The arguments for capitalisation of common names are strong (Arctic sculpins can mean the Arctic Sculpin species or just sculpins in the Arctic in general). I have not capitalised them here as this is not a confirmed trend and French etymology is opposed.

It should be noted that some of the common names are in fact “book names”, composed by scientists to complement the scientific names and to ensure uniformity of presentation in lists. Rare and inaccessible species are only encountered by scientists and have no true, commonly-used name.

The Comments field discusses identification, naming and distributional problems as these apply to records from Canadian waters. Other common names are listed here as they may occur in older literature without a scientific name and can help identify species. Common names may be used for more than one species. Where common names for a species have numerous adjectives modifying a noun, the adjectives are separated by a comma and the noun by a semicolon from other names, e.g. “western, northern, silver, and brown lamprey;” are western lamprey, northern lamprey......

A suite of species not recorded in earlier lists required common names. These may exist in various English and French publications and their sources and reasons for choice are documented. Where new common names have been coined, the reasoning behind their construction is given in the Comments field.

Distribution of species in waters neighbouring Canada (and descriptions of species that may eventually be found in Canada) can be found in Robins and Ray (1986), Collette and Klein-MacPhee (2002) and Moore et al. (2003)(Atlantic), Mecklenburg et al. (2002)(western Arctic and Pacific), Eschmeyer and Herald (1983)(Pacific), Nielsen et al., (1992)(Greenland), Andriyashev (1954) and Andriyashev and Chernova (1995)(Arctic) and Lee et al. (1980) and Page and Burr (1991)(fresh waters).

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Comments

Corrections and additions to this list can be addressed to the author at bcoad@mus-nature.ca.

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Higher Classification

Figures in parentheses are number of confirmed species (but not subspecies) for Canada in each taxon.

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Annotated Checklist

Class/Classe Myxini (3)
Order/Ordre Myxiniformes (3)
Family/Famille Myxinidae (3)
(hagfishes/myxines)

Eptatretus deani
(Evermann & Goldsborough, 1907)

Common Name/Nom commun: black hagfish, myxine noire.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Eptatretus stoutii
(Lockington, 1878)

Common Name/Nom commun: Pacific hagfish, myxine brune.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Myxine glutinosa
Linnaeus, 1758

Common Name/Nom commun: Atlantic hagfish, myxine du nord.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names are hag, hagfish, northern hagfish, slime eel and myxine. Western Atlantic Ocean fish have been referred to Myxine limosa Girard, 1859 (described from Grand Manan Island, Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick) based on pigmentation of preserved specimens and larger size in the western Atlantic compared to specimens from the eastern Atlantic (Wisner and MacMillan, 1995). Martini et al. (1998) and Martini and Flescher in Collette and Klein-MacPhee (2002) show that, while Gulf of Maine fish differ from those in the eastern North Atlantic, those in northern Canadian waters are less distinctive and they recommend North American populations be referred to M. glutinosa.

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Class/Classe Cephlaspidomorphi (11)
Order/Ordre Petromyzontiformes (11)
Family/Famille Petromyzontidae (11)
(lampreys/lamproies)

Ichthyomyzon castaneus
Girard, 1858

Common Name/Nom commun: chestnut lamprey, lamproie brune.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names are western, northern, silver, and brown lamprey; hitchhiker; seven-eyed cat; and bloodsucker. Special Concern (COSEWIC).

Ichthyomyzon fossor
Reighard & Cummins, 1916

Common Name/Nom commun: northern brook lamprey, lamproie du nord.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names are Michigan brook lamprey and blood sucker. Special Concern (COSEWIC).

Ichthyomyzon unicuspis
Hubbs & Trautman, 1937

Common Name/Nom commun: silver lamprey, lamproie argentée.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include northern lamprey and brook lamprey.

Lampetra alaskensis
(Vladykov & Kott, 1978)

Common Name/Nom commun: Alaskan lamprey, lamproie d'Alaska.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include darktail lamprey. Possibly a synonym of Lethenteron japonicum (von Martens, 1868)(now recognised as a synonym of Lampetra camtschatica) or a synonym or subspecies of Lampetra appendix (DeKay, 1842). It is not listed in Nelson et al. (2004) but is recognised in Mecklenburg et al. (2002). May be placed in the genus Lethenteron as L. alaskense. Note change in suffix to trivial name. Data Deficient (COSEWIC).

Lampetra appendix
(DeKay, 1842)

Common Name/Nom commun: American brook lamprey, lamproie de l'est.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include brook lamprey and small black brook lamprey. L. lamottei (Lesueur, 1827) or L. lamottenii may be the correct name according to authors.

Lampetra ayresii
(Günther, 1870)

Common Name/Nom commun: river lamprey, lamproie à queue noire.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include American river lamprey.

Lampetra camtschatica
(Tilesius, 1811)

Common Name/Nom commun: Arctic lamprey, lamproie arctique.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include northern lamprey and Pacific river lamprey. Generic placement (Entosphenus, Lethenteron) and distinction from other taxa (Lethenteron japonicum (von Martens, 1868) and Ichthyomyzon unicuspis Hubbs & Trautman, 1937) varies amongauthors.

Lampetra macrostoma
Beamish, 1982

Common Name/Nom commun: Vancouver lamprey, lamproie à grand disque.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include lake lamprey and Vancouver Island lake lamprey. Threatened (COSEWIC). L. macrostomus in Eschmeyer (1998; website downloaded, 20 November 2002) is incorrect as Lampetra is feminine. May be placed in the genus Entosphenus. Described from Lake Cowichan, Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Lampetra richardsoni
Vladykov & Follett, 1965

Common Name/Nom commun: western brook lamprey, lamproie de l'ouest.
Comments/Commentaires: Described from Smith Creek, Cultus Lake, British Columbia. Endangered (COSEWIC). Lampetra richardsoni variety marifuga Beamish et al. (2002) from Morrison Creek, Vancouver Island is infrasubspecific and not available.

Lampetra tridentata
(Gairdner, 1836)

Common Name/Nom commun: Pacific lamprey, lamproie du Pacifique.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include three-toothed lamprey, tridentate lamprey and sea lamprey. May be placed in the genus Entosphenus. The AFS list has arguments for Gairdner as the author rather than the more usual Richardson and it may be given as Gairdner in Richardson or Richardson (ex Gairdner).

Petromyzon marinus
Linnaeus, 1758

Common Name/Nom commun: sea lamprey, lamproie marine.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include lamprey, ake lamprey, lamprey eel, lamper eel, stone sucker and grande lamproie marine.

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Class/Classe Elasmobranchii (77)
Order/Ordre Hexanchiformes (2)
Family/Famille Hexanchidae (2)
(cow sharks/grisets)

Hexanchus griseus
(Bonnaterre, 1788)

Common Name/Nom commun: bluntnose sixgill shark, requin griset.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names are sixgill shark, shovelnose shark, mud shark, requin grisé.

Notorynchus cepedianus
(Péron, 1807)

Common Name/Nom commun: broadnose sevengill shark, requin à sept branchies.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names are sevengill shark and spotted cow shark.

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Order/Ordre Orectolobiformes (1)
Family/Famille Rhincodontidae (1)
(whale sharks/requins-baleines)

Rhincodon typus
Smith, 1828

Common Name/Nom commun: whale shark, requin baleine.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

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Order/Ordre Lamniformes (8)
Family/Famille Odontaspididae (1)
(sand tigers/requins-taureaux)

Carcharias taurus
Rafinesque, 1810

Common Name/Nom commun: sand tiger, requin-taureau.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include tiger, dogfish shark, ground shark, shovelnose shark, nurse shark, spotted ragged-tooth shark and requin sable tacheté. Also placed in the genera Odontaspis and Eugomphodus by authors.

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Family/Famille Lamnidae (5)
(mackerel sharks/requins-taupes)

Carcharodon carcharias
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/Nom commun: great white shark, grand requin blanc.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include white shark, white pointer, blue pointer, white death, maneater shark and mangeur d'homme.

Isurus oxyrinchus
Rafinesque, 1810

Common Name/Nom commun: shortfin mako, mako à nageoires courtes.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names mako, shortfin mako shark, include bonito shark, mako shark, blue pointer, mackerel shark, sharp-nosed mackerel shark, requin taupe bleu and taupe bleu.

Isurus paucus
Guitart Manday, 1966

Common Name/Nom commun: longfin mako, petit requin-taupe.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include taupe longue aile.

Lamna ditropis
Hubbs & Follett, 1947

Common Name/Nom commun: salmon shark, taupe du Pacifique.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include mackerel shark and requin-taupe saumon.

Lamna nasus
(Bonnaterre, 1788)

Common Name/Nom commun: porbeagle, maraîche.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include mackerel shark, blue dog, salmon shark, herring shark, bonito shark, beaumaris shark and blue mako. Endangerd (COSEWIC).

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Family/Famille Cetorhinidae (1)
(basking sharks/pèlerins)

Cetorhinus maximus
(Gunnerus, 1765)

Common Name/Nom commun: basking shark, pèlerin.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include bone shark, nurse fish and sailfish.

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Family/Famille Alopiidae (1)
(thresher sharks/requins-renards)

This family is also known as renards marins in French.

Alopias vulpinus
(Bonnaterre, 1788)

Common Name/Nom commun: thresher shark, renard marin.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include common thresher, thrasher, swiveltail, swingletail, fox shark, renard and renard de mer. Family name in French may also be Renards Marins.

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Order/Ordre Carcharhiniformes (20)
Family/Famille Scyliorhinidae (8)
(cat sharks/roussettes)

Apristurus brunneus
(Gilbert, 1892)

Common Name/Nom commun: brown cat shark, roussette.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include brown shark and holbiche brune.

Apristurus laurussonii
(Saemundsson, 1922)

Common Name/Nom commun: Iceland cat shark, roussette d'Islande.
Comments/Commentaires: Moore et al. (2003) point out that material from the western North Atlantic identified as this species may represent a new species.

Apristurus manis
(Springer, 1979)

Common Name/Nom commun: ghost cat shark, holbiche fantôme.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Apristurus melanoasper
Iglésias, Nakaya & Stehmann, 2004

Common name/Nom commun: None.
Comments/Commentaires: Recorded from the slope off Nova Scotia at 42º50'N, 62º03'W in the original description.

Apristurus microps
(Gilchrist, 1922)

Common Name/Nom commun: smalleye cat shark, holbiche porc.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Apristurus profundorum
(Goode & Bean, 1896)

Common Name/Nom commun: deepsea cat shark, roussette de profundeur.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include deepwater catshark and holbiche papoila.

Apristurus riveri
Bigelow & Schroeder, 1944

Common Name/Nom commun: broadgill cat shark, holbiche grandes oreilles.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Scyliorhinus retifer
(Garman, 1881)

Common Name/Nom commun: chain dogfish, roussette maille.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include chain cat shark. Documented by Moore et al. (2003) and Gilhen et al. (2004).

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Family/Famille Pseudotriakidae (1)
(false catsharks/requins à longue dorsale)

Pseudotriakis microdon
de Brito Capello, 1868

Common Name/Nom commun: false cat shark, requin à longue dorsale.
Comments/Commentaires: Documented by Gilhen and Coad (1999). French common name from FishBase (downloaded 10 February 2004). Eschmeyer's "Catalog of Fishes" has simply Brito Capello as author.

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Family/Famille Triakidae (2)
(hound sharks/émissoles)

Galeorhinus galeus
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/Nom commun: tope, requin à grands ailerons.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include soupfin shark, tope, tope shark, vitamin shark, school shark, oil shark and requin-hâ.

Mustelus canis
(Mitchill, 1815)

Common Name/Nom commun: smooth dogfish, émissole.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include dusky smooth-hound, smooth hound and émissole douce.

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Family/Famille Carcharhinidae (7)
(requiem sharks/mangeurs d’hommes)

Carcharhinus falciformis
(Müller & Henle, 1839)

Common Name/Nom commun: silky shark, requin soyeux.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include net-eater shark and grey reef shark.

Carcharhinus longimanus
(Poey, 1861)

Common Name/Nom commun: oceanic whitetip shark, rameur.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include ocean whitetip shark, requin océanique, requin à longues nageoires and réquiem océanique.

Carcharhinus obscurus
(Lesueur, 1818)

Common Name/Nom commun: dusky shark, requin obscure.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include shovelnose, bay shark, requin sombre and réquiem de sable.

Carcharhinus plumbeus
(Nardo, 1827)

Common Name/Nom commun: sandbar shark, requin gris.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include brown shark and réquiem plombe.

Galeocerdo cuvier
(Péron & Lesueur, 1822)

Common Name/Nom commun: tiger shark, requin tigre commun.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include leopard shark.

Prionace glauca
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/Nom commun: blue shark, requin bleu.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include blue dog, blue whaler, blue pointer, blue pointer shark, great blue shark and peau bleue.

Rhizoprionodon terraenovae
(Richardson, 1836)

Common Name/Nom commun: Atlantic sharpnose shark, requin à nez pointu.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include sharpnosed shark and requin aiguille gussi. Described from Newfoundland.

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Family/Famille Sphyrnidae (2)
(hammerheads/requins-marteaux)

Sphyrna mokarran
(Rüppell, 1837)

Common Name/Nom commun: great hammerhead, grand requin-marteau.
Comments/Commentaires: Based on material in the Atlantic Reference Centre Specimen Collection (Huntsman Marine Science Centre) listed and mapped in the “Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas” at http://gmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/aconow95/aconscripts/gmbis.html; last updated version examined 2002/11/20. English and French common names from FishBase (downloaded 10 February 2004).

Sphyrna zygaena
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/Nom commun: smooth hammerhead, requin-marteau commun.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include shovelhead, shovelnose, common hammerhead and pantouflier.

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Order/Ordre Squaliformes (9)
Family/Famille Dalatiidae (8)
(sleeper sharks/laimargues)

This family is divided into Etmopteridae (lantern sharks, requins-lanternes) for the genera Centroscyllium and Etmopterus, Somniosidae (sleeper sharks, somniosidés) for Centroscymnus and Somniosus and Dalatiidae (kitefin sharks, laimargues) for Dalatias (and Squaliolus) in the AFS list (Nelson et al. (2004).

Centroscyllium fabricii
(Reinhardt, 1825)

Common Name/Nom commun: black dogfish, aiguillat noir.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include dogfish and shark.Placed in Etmopteridae in the AFS list.

Centroscymnus coelolepis
Barboza du Bocage & de Brito Capello, 1864

Common Name/Nom commun: Portuguese shark, pailona.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Portuguese dogfish and pailona commun. Eschmeyer has spelling of Barbosa du Bocage & Brito Capello for authors. Placed in Somniosidae in the AFS list.

Dalatias licha
(Bonnaterre, 1788)

Common Name/Nom commun: kitefin shark, squale liche.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include darkie charlie, black shark and black jack.

Etmopterus gracilispinis
Krefft, 1968

Common Name/Nom commun: broadband lantern shark, sagre rubané.
Comments/Commentaires: Based on material in the Atlantic Reference Centre Specimen Collection (Huntsman Marine Science Centre) listed and mapped in the “Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas” at http://gmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/aconow95/aconscripts/gmbis.html; last updated version examined 2002/11/20. Placed in Etmopteridae in the AFS list. Other common names include broadband dogfish and broadbanded lanternshark. French common name from FishBase (downloaded 10 February 2004).

Etmopterus princeps
Collett, 1904

Common Name/Nom commun: rough sagre, sagre rude.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include great lanternshark. Placed in Etmopteridae in the AFS list.

Somniosus microcephalus
(Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

Common Name/Nom commun: Greenland shark, laimargue atlantique.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include sleeper shark, ground shark, gurry shark, grey shark, large sleeper, requin dormeur, eqalukjuaq, iqalukuak, iqalujjuaq and eqaludjuaq. Laimargue is given as the French name in the AFS list but the adjective “atlantique” is added here for the Canadian list to separate this species from the Pacific sleeper shark. Placed in Somniosidae in the AFS list.

Somniosus pacificus
Bigelow & Schroeder, 1944

Common Name/Nom commun: Pacific sleeper shark, laimargue du Pacifique.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include laimargue dormeur. Placed in Somniosidae in the AFS list.

Squaliolus laticaudus
Smith & Radcliffe, 1912

Common Name/Nom commun: spined pygmy shark, squale nain.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include dwarf shark and midwater shark.

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Family/Famille Squalidae (1)
(dogfish sharks/chiens de mer)

Squalus acanthias
Linnaeus, 1758

Common Name/Nom commun: spiny dogfish, aiguillat commun.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include dogfish, shark, northern shark, harbour halibut, piked or picked dogfish, spined dogfish, bone-dogs, spurdog, mudshark, spikey jack, salmon shark, horned dogfish, sand shark, requin, requin épineux, aiguillat, grey fish*, nursehound*, Folkestone beef*, flake*, rock-salmon* and huss* (* = commercial names). Pacific coast populations have been referred to Squalus acanthias suckleyi (Girard, 1855)(Gillespie, 1993).

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Order/Ordre Squatiniformes (2)
Family/Famille Squatinidae (2)
(angel sharks/anges de mer)

Squatina californica
Ayres, 1859

Common Name/Nom commun: Pacific angel shark, ange de mer du Pacifique.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune. Gillespie (1993), Mecklenburg et al. (2002) and Peden (2002) note that none are reported from B.C. and an Alaskan record is not documented. However it is reported from Puget Sound and so may eventually be found in B.C.

Squatina dumeril
Lesueur 1818

Common Name/Nom commun: Atlantic angel shark, ange de l'Atlantique
Comments/Commentaires: Reported in the “East Coast of North America Strategic Assessment Project” by the Northern Gulf Region, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Mont Joli, Québec. Other common names include sand devil, monkfish and ange de mer de sable. French common name from FishBase (downloaded 10 February 2004).

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Order/Ordre Torpediformes (2)
Family/Famille Torpedinidae (2)
(electric rays/torpilles)

Torpedo californica
Ayres, 1855

Common Name/Nom commun: Pacific electric ray, torpille du Pacifique.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Torpedo nobiliana
Bonaparte, 1835

Common Name/Nom commun: Atlantic torpedo, torpille noire.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Atlantic electric ray, numbfish and crampfish.

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Order/Ordre Rajiformes (34)
Family/Famille Rajidae (30)
(skates/raies)

Amblyraja badia
(Garman, 1899)

Common Name/Nom commun: broad skate, raie large.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include grande raie.

Amblyraja hyperborea
(Collett, 1879)

Common Name/Nom commun: darkbelly skate, raie boréale.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Arctic skate, blackbelly skate and raie arctique.

Amblyraja jenseni
(Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950)

Common Name/Nom commun: shorttail skate, raie à queue courte.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Jensen's skate.

Amblyraja radiata
(Donovan, 1808)

Common Name/Nom commun: thorny skate, raie épineuse.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Arctic thorny skate, starry skate, Atlantic prickly skate, raie radiée and qarlêk.

Bathyraja abyssicola
(Gilbert, 1896)

Common Name/Nom commun: abyssal skate, raie abyssale.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include deepsea skate and raie de profondeur. Described from off the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia at 52°39'30"N, 132°38'00"W.

Bathyraja aleutica
(Gilbert, 1896)

Common Name/Nom commun: Aleutian skate, raie Aléutienne.
Comments/Commentaires: Confirmed for B.C by Peden (2003). French common name by analogy from English common name.

Bathyraja interrupta
(Gill & Townsend, 1897)

Common Name/Nom commun: sandpaper skate, raie rugueuse.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Bering skate and black skate.

Bathyraja minispinosa
Ishiyama & Ishihara, 1977

Common Name/Nom commun: whitebrow skate, ?.
Comments/Commentaires: Documented by Peden (2003) for B.C. Other common names include smallthorn skate. FishBase has no common French name (downloaded 5 October 2004).

Bathyraja parmifera
(Bean, 1881)

Common Name/Nom commun: Alaska skate, ?.
Comments/Commentaires: No Canadian record (Peden, 2002) but often confused with Raja stellulata (Mecklenburg et al. (2002) so potentially occurring in B.C. Other common names include flathead skate. No French name in FishBase (downloaded 5 October 2004).

Bathyraja richardsoni
(Garrick, 1961)

Common Name/Nom commun: deepwater skate, raie de profondeurs.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Richardson's skate.

Bathyraja sp.

Common Name/Nom commun: None/Aucune.
Comments/Commentaires: Reported from Franklin Bay, Beaufort Sea in the Canadian Arctic as egg cases, specific identity not confirmed (Coad et al. 1995).

Bathyraja spinicauda
(Jensen, 1914)

Common Name/Nom commun: spinytail skate, raie à queue épineuse.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include spinetail ray.

Bathyraja trachura
(Gilbert, 1892)

Common Name/Nom commun: roughtail skate, raie à queue rude.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include black skate.

Breviraja marklei
McEachren & Miyaki, 1987

Common Name/Nom commun: Markle's ray, raie de Markle.
Comments/Commentaires: Described from off Nova Scotia at 44°45.1'N, 56°07.1'W.

Dipturus laevis
(Mitchill, 1818)

Common Name/Nom commun: barndoor skate, grande raie.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include sharpnosed skate.

Dipturus linteus
(Fries, 1838)

Common Name/Nom commun: linen skate, raie linon.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include white skate, sailray and raie voile.

Leucoraja erinacea
(Mitchill, 1825)

Common Name/Nom commun: little skate, raie-hérisson.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include tobacco box and hedgehog skate. Note hyphenation of French name.

Leucoraja lentiginosa
(Bigelow &Schroeder 1951)

Common Name/Nom commun: freckled skate, ?.
Comments/Commentaires: Reported in the “East Coast of North America Strategic Assessment Project” by Scotia-Fundy Region, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Other common names include speckled skate. FishBase has no French name (downloaded 5 October 2004).

Leucoraja ocellata
(Mitchill, 1815)

Common Name/Nom commun: winter skate, raie tachetée.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include big skate, eyed skate and spotted skate.

Malacoraja senta
(Garman, 1885)

Common Name/Nom commun: smooth skate, raie à queue de velours.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include smooth-tailed skate, prickly skate and raie lisse. Described from Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Le Have Bank.

Malacoraja spinacidermis
(Barnard, 1923)

Common Name/Nom commun: soft skate, raie molle.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include prickled ray and raie profonde.

Raja binoculata
Girard, 1855

Common Name/Nom commun: big skate, raie biocellée.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Pacific great skate and Pacific barndoor skate.

Raja eglanteria
Bosc, 1800

Common Name/Nom commun: clearnose skate, raie blanc nez.
Comments/Commentaires: Reported in the “East Coast of North America Strategic Assessment Project” by the Scotia-Fundy Region, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Other common names include clear-nosed brier skate and clear-nosed summer skate. French common name from FishBase (downloaded 10 February 2004).

Raja inornata
Jordan & Gilbert, 1881

Common Name/Nom commun: California skate, raie californien.
Comments/Commentaires: Reported from Juan de Fuca Strait by Eschmeyer and Herald (1983) and potentially occurring in Canadian waters (Gillespie, 1993).

Raja rhina
Jordan & Gilbert, 1880

Common Name/Nom commun: longnose skate, pocheteau long-nez.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include pocheteau noir.

Raja sp.

Common Name/Nom commun: None/Aucune.
Comments/Commentaires: Reported from near the Flemish Cap in Atlantic Canada but not yet described (Coad et al., 2004).

Raja stellulata
Jordan & Gilbert, 1880

Common Name/Nom commun: starry skate, raie du Pacifique.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include prickly skate. Records of this species are probably mis-identified B. parmifera (Mecklenburg et al., 2002).

Rajella bathyphila
(Holt & Byrne, 1908)

Common Name/Nom commun: chocolate skate, raie chocolat.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include deepwater ray, abyssal skate, raie bathyale.

Rajella bigelowi
(Stehmann, 1978)

Common Name/Nom commun: Bigelow's skate, raie de Bigelow.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Rajella fyllae
(Lütken, 1887)

Common Name/Nom commun: round skate, raie ronde.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include round ray.

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Family/Famille Dasyatidae (3)
(whiptail stingrays/pastenagues)

This family is also known simply as stingrays.

Dasyatis centroura
(Mitchill, 1815)

Common Name/Nom commun: roughtail stingray, pastenague à queue épineuse.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include stingaree and clam cracker.

Dasyatis dipterura
(Jordan & Gilbert, 1880)

Common Name/Nom commun: diamond stingray, ?.
Comments/Commentaires: This species is possibly reported from Pacific Canada but requires specimens for confirmation (Hart, 1973; McAllister, 1990; Gillespie, 1993). It has priority over Dasyatis brevis (Garman, 1880) which is regarded as a synonym by some authors (Eschmeyer, 1998). Other common names include k'ak'ew (in Salish) and rat-tailed stingray. FishBase has no French name (downloaded October 2004).

Pteroplatytrygon violacea
(Bonaparte, 1832)

Common Name/Nom commun: pelagic stingray, pastenague violette.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include violet stingray.

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Family/Famille Myliobatidae (1)
(eagle rays/aigles de mer)

Manta birostris
(Walbaum, 1792)

Common Name/Nom commun: giant manta, mante géante.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Atlantic manta, giant devil ray and manta atlantique. French name with added adjective following expanded English common name after Nelson et al. (2004).

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Class/Classe Holocephali (5)
Order/Ordre Chimaeriformes (5)
Family/Famille Chimaeridae (2)
(shortnose chimaeras/chimères)

Hydrolagus affinis
(Brito Capello, 1868)

Common Name/Nom commun: deepwater chimaera, chimère de profondeurs.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include rabbitfish, ratfish, smalleyed rabbitfish, chimère à petits yeux.

Hydrolagus colliei
(Lay & Bennett, 1839)

Common Name/Nom commun: spotted ratfish, chimère d'Amérique.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include rabbitfish, spookfish, elephant-fish, goatfish and water hare.

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Family/Famille Rhinochimaeridae (3)
(Longnose Chimaeras/Chimères à Long Nez)

Harriotta haeckeli
Karrer, 1972

Common Name/Nom commun: Haeckel's chimaera, chimère d'Haeckel.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Harriotta raleighana
Goode & Bean, 1895

Common Name/Nom commun: longnose chimaera, chimère-spatule.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include bentnose rabbitfish and chimère à nez rigide.

Rhinochimaera atlantica
Holt & Byrne, 1909

Common Name/Nom commun: knifenose chimera, chimère-couteau.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include straightnose rabbitfish and chimère à nez mou.

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Class/Classe Actinopterygii (1311)
Order/Ordre Acipenseriformes (6)
Family/Famille Acipenseridae (5)
(sturgeons/esturgeons)

Acipenser brevirostrum
Lesueur, 1818

Common Name/Nom commun: shortnose sturgeon, esturgeon à museau court.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include pinkster, little sturgeon, roundnoser, bottlenose, mammose and soft shell sturgeon. Special Concern (COSEWIC).

Acipenser fulvescens
Rafinesque, 1817

Common Name/Nom commun: lake sturgeon, esturgeon jaune.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include sturgeon; freshwater, common, Great Lakes, red, ruddy, black, rock, stone, dogface, shellback or bony sturgeon; smoothback, rubber nose, esturgeon, esturgeon de lac, camus; or for young - escargot maillé and charbonnier. Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Acipenser medirostris
Ayres, 1854

Common Name/Nom commun: green sturgeon, esturgeon vert.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include sturgeon and esturgeon. Special Concern (COSEWIC).

Acipenser oxyrinchus
Mitchill, 1815

Common Name/Nom commun: Atlantic sturgeon, esturgeon noir.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include sturgeon, sea sturgeon, common sturgeon, esturgeon, esturgeon noir d'Amérique; and when young - sharpnose sturgeon, pelican, escargot or escaille. Spelled oxyrhynchus in older literature. Artyukhin and Vecsei (1999) consider this species to be a subspecies of Acipenser sturio Linnaeus, 1758 of Europe but this has not found general acceptance.

Acipenser transmontanus
Richardson, 1836

Common Name/Nom commun: white sturgeon, esturgeon blanc.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include sturgeon, Pacific sturgeon, Oregon sturgeon, Columbia sturgeon, Sacramento sturgeon and esturgeon. Endangered (COSEWIC).

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Family/Famille Polyodontidae (1)
(paddlefishes/spatules)

Polyodon spathula
(Walbaum, 1792)

Common Name/Nom commun: paddlefish, spatulaire.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include spoonbill cat, spadefish, duckbill cat, shovelfish and oarfish. Extirpated from Canada (COSEWIC).

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Order/Ordre Lepisosteiformes (3)
Family/Famille Lepisosteidae (3)
(gars/lépisostés)

Lepisosteus oculatus
Winchell, 1864

Common Name/Nom commun: spotted gar, lépisosté tacheté.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include shortnose gar and billfish. Threatened (COSEWIC).

Lepisosteus osseus
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/Nom commun: longnose gar, lépisosté osseux.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include garpike, northern longnose gar, billy gar, billfish, needlenose, northern mailed fish, pin-nose gar, bonypike and scissorbill.

Lepisosteus platyrhincus
DeKay, 1842

Common Name/Nom commun: Florida gar, ?.
Comments/Commentaires: Introduced to Ontario but not established. FishBase has no French name (downloaded 5 October 2004).

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Order/Ordre Amiiformes (1)
Family/Famille Amiidae (1)
(bowfins/poissons-castors)

Amia calva
Linnaeus, 1766

Common Name/Nom commun: bowfin, poisson-castor.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include dogfish, mudfish, mud pike, grindle, grinnell, griddle, spot-tail, lawyer, cottonfish, blackfish, speckled cat, scaled ling, beaverfish, cypress trout, poisson de marais and choupique.

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Order/Ordre Osteoglossiformes (2)
Family/Famille (2)
(mooneyes/laquaiches)

Note the AFS list has the order Hiodontiformes for these taxa (Nelson et al., 2004).

Hiodon alosoides
(Rafinesque, 1819)

Common Name/Nom commun: goldeye, laquaiche aux yeux d'or.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include toothed herring, northern mooneye, Winnipeg goldeye, western goldeye, yellow herring and shad mooneye.

Hiodon tergisus
Lesueur, 1818

Common Name/Nom commun: mooneye, laquaiche argentée.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include toothed herring, river whitefish, freshwater herring, cisco and white shad.

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Order/Ordre Elopiformes (2)
Family/Famille Elopidae (1)
(tenpounders/guinées)

Elops saurus
Linnaeus, 1766

Common Name/Nom commun: ladyfish, banane.
Comments/Commentaires: Based on material in the Atlantic Reference Centre Specimen Collection (Huntsman Marine Science Centre) listed and mapped in the “Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas” at http://gmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/aconow95/aconscripts/gmbis.html; last updated version examined 2002/11/20. Other common names include bonefish, bonyfish, fiddler, john, long john, long cudja, mariggle, riverfish, skipjack, silverfish, tenpounder, saumon, guinée machète.

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Family/Famille Megalopidae (1)
(tarpons/tarpons)

Megalops atlanticus
Valenciennes, 1847

Common Name/Nom commun: tarpon, tarpon.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Atlantic tarpon, bass, cuffum, silverfish, silverking tarpon, madzorfloe, tarpon argenté and grand-écaille. French common name from FishBase (downloaded 10 February 2004).

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Order/Ordre Albuliformes (1)
Family/Famille Albulidae (1)
(bonefishes/bananes de mer)

Albula vulpes
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/Nom commun: bonefish, banane de mer.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include ladyfish, grubber, bananafish, phantom and silver ghost.

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Order/Ordre Notacanthiformes (10)
Family/Famille Halosauridae (5)
(halosaurs/halosaurs)

Aldrovandria affinis
(Günther, 1877)

Common Name/Nom commun: Gilbert's halosaurid fish, ?.
Comments/Commentaires: Based on material in the Atlantic Reference Centre Specimen Collection (Huntsman Marine Science Centre) listed and mapped in the “Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas” at http://gmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/aconow95/aconscripts/gmbis.html; last updated version examined 2002/11/20. English common name from FishBase, no French name (downloaded 10 February 2004).

Aldrovandia gracilis
Goode & Bean, 1896

Common Name/Nom commun: ?,?.
Comments/Commentaires: Based on material in the Atlantic Reference Centre Specimen Collection (Huntsman Marine Science Centre) listed and mapped in the “Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas” at http://gmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/aconow95/aconscripts/gmbis.html; last updated version examined 2002/11/20. FishBase has no common names (downloaded 5 October 2004).

Aldrovandia oleosa
Sulak, 1977

Aldrovandia phalacra
(Vaillant, 1888)

Common Name/Nom commun: bald halosaur, halosaure chauve.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Halosauropsis macrochir
(Günther, 1878)

Common Name/Nom commun: longfin halosaur, halosaure à longues nageoires.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

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Family/Famille Notacanthidae (5)
(spiny eels/poissons-tapirs à épines)

Note that McAllister (1990) uses tapirfish as a common name for these species as the usual common name, spiny eel, also refers to a tropical freshwater family (Mastacembelidae).

Lipogenys gillii
Goode & Bean, 1895

Common Name/Nom commun: backfin tapirfish, tapir à dorsale.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Notacanthus bonaparte
Risso, 1840

Common Name/Nom commun: shortfin spiny eel, ?.
Comments/Commentaires: Based on material in the Atlantic Reference Centre Specimen Collection (Huntsman Marine Science Centre) listed and mapped in the “Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas” at http://gmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/aconow95/aconscripts/gmbis.html; last updated version examined 2002/11/20. English common name from FishBase, no French name (downloaded 10 February 2004). Other common names include Bonapart's spiny eel.

Notacanthus chemnitzii
Bloch, 1788

Common Name/Nom commun: snubnosed spiny eel, tapir à grandes écailles.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include spiny eel, largescale tapirfish and swordtail eel.

Polyacanthonotus challengeri
(Vaillant, 1888)

Common Name/Nom commun: longnose tapirfish, tapir à nez long.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include spiny eel.

Polyacanthonotus rissoanus
(De Filippi & Vérany, 1857)

Common Name/Nom commun: shortspine tapirfish, tapir à petites épines.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include spiny eel and smallmouth spiny eel.

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Order/Ordre Anguilliformes (47)
incertae sedis(1)
(transparent eels/?)
Thalassenchelys coheni
Castle & Raju, 1975

Common Name/Nom commun: transparent eel, ?.
Comments/Commentaires: This species is known as a leptocephalus larva of uncertain family from off Vancouver Island, B.C. and is documented in Peden (2002) and Mecklenburg et al. (2002). Sometimes placed in the family Chlopsidae (false morays, fausses murènes). FishBase lists no common names (downloaded 5 October 2004).

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Family/Famille Anguillidae (2)
(freshwater eels/anguilles d’eau douce)

Anguilla anguilla
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/Nom commun: European eel, anguille d'Europe.
Comments/Commentaires: Based on material in the Atlantic Reference Centre Specimen Collection (Huntsman Marine Science Centre) listed and mapped in the “Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas” at http://gmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/aconow95/aconscripts/gmbis.html; last updated version examined 2002/11/20. French common name from FishBase (downloaded 10 February 2004). Other common names include eel, common eel, river eel, silver eel, sing eel, weed eel, yellow eel, anguille, anguille argentée, anguille européenne, anguille jaune, angèle, anguielo, bomarinque, bouiron, civelle, coureuse, piballe, pimperneau, pougau, pounchurote, pounchuroto, resso, sili, thaoundella, thaudelo and verniau.

Anguilla rostrata
(Lesueur, 1817)

Common Name/Nom commun: American eel, anguille d'Amérique.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include eel, common eel, Atlantic eel, Boston eel, snakefish; silver, yellow-bellied, bronze, black or green eel; anguille and anguille argentée.

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Family/Famille Moringuidae (1)
(spaghetti eels/anguilles-spaghettis)

Neoconger mucronatus
Girard, 1858

Common Name/Nom commun: ridged eel, anguille enfaitée.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

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Family/Famille Muraenidae (3)
(morays/murènes)

Anarchias similis
(Lea, 1913)

Common Name/Nom commun: pygmy moray, murène pygmée.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Gymnothorax funebris
Ranzani, 1839

Common Name/Nom commun: green moray, murène verte.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Gymnothorax sp.

Common Name/Nom commun: None/Aucune.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune. ?source

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Family/Famille Synaphobranchidae (4)
(cutthroat eels/anguilles égorgées)

Ilyophis brunneus
Gilbert, 1891

Common Name/Nom commun: brown cutthroat eel, anguille égorgée brune.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include muddy arrowtooth eel and ooze eel.

Simenchelys parasitica
Gill, 1879

Common Name/Nom commun: snubnose eel, anguille à nez court.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include slime-eel, snubnose parasitic eel and pugnose eel. Described from Banquereau, Canada (presumably Banquereau Bank off Nova Scotia).

Synaphobranchus affinis
Günther, 1877

Common Name/Nom commun: grey cutthroat, ?.
Comments/Commentaires: Reported from off Nova Scotia by Moore et al. (2003) based on MCZ 37764 at 42°44’N, 63°17’W. Other common names include Gilbert's synaphobranchid eel. English common name from FishBase, no French name (downloaded 10 February 2004).

Synaphobranchus kaupii
Johnson, 1862

Common Name/Nom commun: northern cutthroat eel, anguille égorgée bécue.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Kaup's deepsea eel, Gray's cutthroat eel, longnose eel and slatjaw cutthroat eel.

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Family/Famille Ophichthidae (13)
(snake eels/serpents de mer)

Ahlia egmontis
(Jordan, 1884)

Common Name/Nom commun: key worm eel, serpenton d'Egmont.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Apterichtus ansp
(Böhlke, 1968)

Common Name/Nom commun: academy eel, serpenton de l'Académie.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Bascanichthys bascanium
(Jordan, 1884)

Common Name/Nom commun: sooty eel, serpenton charbonneux.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Callechelys muraena
Jordan & Evermann, 1887

Common Name/Nom commun: blotched snake eel, serpenton couperosé.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Gordiichthys irretitus
Jordan & Davis, 1891

Common Name/Nom commun: horsehair eel, serpenton poil-de-cheval.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Gordiichthys leibyi
McCosker & Böhlke, 1984

Common Name/Nom commun: string eel, serpenton de Leiby.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include sooty eel.

Letharchus aliculatus
McCosker, 1974

Common Name/Nom commun: striped sailfin eel, serpenton rayé.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Myrichthys breviceps
(Richardson, 1848)

Common Name/Nom commun: sharptail eel, serpent de mer à queue pointue.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Myrophis platyrhynchus
Breder, 1927

Common Name/Nom commun: broadnose worm eel, serpenton à nez plat.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Myrophis punctatus
Lütken, 1852

Common Name/Nom commun: speckled worm eel, serpenton tacheté.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Ophichthus cruentifer
(Goode & Bean, 1896)

Common Name/Nom commun: margined snake eel, serpenton livré.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include serpent de mer.

Ophichthus gomesii
(Castelnau, 1855)

Common Name/Nom commun: shrimp eel, serpenton chevrette.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Ophichthus puncticeps
(Kaup, 1860)

Common Name/Nom commun: palespotted eel, serpenton ocellé.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

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Family/Famille Congridae (11)
(conger eels/congres)

Ariosoma anale
(Poey, 1860)

Common Name/Nom commun: longtrunk conger, ?.
Comments/Commentaires: Based on material in the Atlantic Reference Centre Specimen Collection (Huntsman Marine Science Centre) listed and mapped in the “Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas” at http://gmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/aconow95/aconscripts/gmbis.html; last updated version examined 2002/11/20. Listed from Atlantic Canada but no exact locality given. English common name from FishBase, no French name (downloaded 10 February 2004).

Ariosoma balearicum
(Delaroche, 1809)

Common Name/Nom commun: bandtooth conger, congre des Baléares.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Balearic conger.

Bathyconger sp.

Common Name/Nom commun: None/Aucune.
Comments/Commentaires: Based on material in the Atlantic Reference Centre Specimen Collection (Huntsman Marine Science Centre) listed and mapped in the “Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas” at http://gmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/aconow95/aconscripts/gmbis.html; last updated version examined 2002/11/20. Appears there under the genus Rhechias Jordan, 1921, regarded as a synonym by some authors.

Conger oceanicus
(Mitchill, 1818)

Common Name/Nom commun: conger eel, congre à museau aigu.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include American conger eel, sea eel and conger d'Amérique.

Heteroconger luteolus
Smith, 1989

Common Name/Nom commun: yellow garden eel, ?.
Comments/Commentaires: Based on material in the Atlantic Reference Centre Specimen Collection (Huntsman Marine Science Centre) listed and mapped in the “Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas” at http://gmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/aconow95/aconscripts/gmbis.html; last updated version examined 2002/11/20. No French name in FishBase (downloaded 5 October 2004).

Paraconger caudilimbatus
(Poey, 1867)

Common Name/Nom commun: margintail conger, congre de plage.
Comments/Commentaires: Based on material in the Atlantic Reference Centre Specimen Collection (Huntsman Marine Science Centre) listed and mapped in the “Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas” at http://gmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/aconow95/aconscripts/gmbis.html; last updated version examined 2002/11/20. French common name from FishBase (downloaded 10 February 2004).

Pseudophichthys splendens
(Lea, 1913)

Common Name/Nom commun: purplemouthed conger, congre splendide.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Rhyncoconger flavus
(Goode& Bean, 1896)

Common Name/Nom commun: yellow conger, congre jaune.
Comments/Commentaires: Based on material in the Atlantic Reference Centre Specimen Collection (Huntsman Marine Science Centre) listed and mapped in the “Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas” at http://gmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/aconow95/aconscripts/gmbis.html; last updated version examined 2002/11/20. Appeared there as Hildebrandia flava. Also placed in Heterocongerby some authors. French common name from FishBase (downloaded 10 February 2004).

Uroconger syringinus
Ginsburg, 1954

Common Name/Nom commun: threadtail conger, congre à queue élancée.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Xenomystax sp.

Common Name/Nom commun: None/Aucune.
Comments/Commentaires: Based on material in the Atlantic Reference Centre Specimen Collection (Huntsman Marine Science Centre) listed and mapped in the “Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas” at http://gmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/aconow95/aconscripts/gmbis.html; last updated version examined 2002/11/20. Appeared there under the synonym Paraxenomystax Reid, 1940.

Xenomystax atrarius
Gilbert, 1891

Common Name/Nom commun: twinpored eel, anguille à pores jumelées.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

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Family/Famille Derichthyidae (2)
(neckeels/anguilles à col)

Derichthys serpentinus
Gill 1884

Common Name/Nom commun: neckeel, anguille à col.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include narrownecked oceanic eel and narrowneck eel.

Nessorhamphus ingolfianus
(Schmidt, 1912)

Common Name/Nom commun: duckbill eel, nesso.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include duckbill oceanic eel and spoonbill eel.

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Family/Famille Nemichthyidae (3)
(snipe eels/poissons-avocettes)

Avocettina infans
(Günther, 1878)

Common Name/Nom commun: closespine snipe eel, avocette immature.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include spaced snipe eel, blackline snipe eel and avocet snipe eel.

Labichthys carinatus
Gill & Ryder, 1883

Common Name/Nom commun: carinate snipe eel, avocette carênée.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Nemichthys scolopaceus
Richardson, 1848

Common Name/Nom commun: slender snipe eel, avocette ruban.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Atlantic snipe eel, brown snipe eel and threadfish.

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Family/Famille Serrivomeridae (4)
(sawpalates/serrivomers)

Serrivomer beanii
Gill & Ryder, 1883

Common Name/Nom commun: stout sawpalate, serrivomer trapu.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Bean's sawtoothed eel, thread eel and shortnosed snipe eel.

Serrivomer jesperseni
Bauchot-Boutin, 1953

Common Name/Nom commun: crossthroat sawpalate, serrivomer à gorge croisée.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Serrivomer lanceolatoides
(Schmidt, 1916)

Common Name/Nom commun: short-tooth sawpalate, serrivomer à dents courtes.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include black saw-toothed eel.

Serrivomer parabeani
Bertin, 1940

Common Name/Nom commun: longfin sawpalate, serrivomer à nageoire longue.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include thread eel. Probably a synonym of S. beanii.

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Family/Famille Nettastomatidae (3)
(duckbill eels/anguilles à bec de canard)

Facciolella sp.

Hoplunnis sp.

Nettastoma melanurum
Rafinesque, 1810

Common Name/Nom commun: blackfin sorcerer, ?.
Comments/Commentaires: Based on material in the Atlantic Reference Centre Specimen Collection (Huntsman Marine Science Centre) listed and mapped in the “Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas” at http://gmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/aconow95/aconscripts/gmbis.html; last updated version examined 2002/11/20. English common name from FishBase, no French name (downloaded 10 February 2004).

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Order/Ordre Saccopharyngiformes (2)
Family/Famille Saccopharyngidae (1)
(swallowers/avaleurs)

Saccopharynx ampullaceus
(Harwood, 1827)

Common Name/Nom commun: taillight gulper, avaleur feu-arrière.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

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Family/Famille Eurypharyngidae (1)
(gulpers/grandgousiers)

Eurypharynx pelecanoides
Vaillant, 1882

Common Name/Nom commun: pelican gulper, grandgousier pelican.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include umbrellamouth gulper, pelican eel and pelican gulper eel.

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Order/Ordre Clupeiformes (13)
Family/Famille Clupeidae (10)
(herrings/harengs)

Alosa aestivalis
(Mitchill, 1814)

Common Name/Nom commun: blueback herring, alose d'été.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include blueback shad, river herring, glut herring, gaspereau, summer herring, blueback mulhaden, black belly and kyack. Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Alosa mediocris
(Mitchill, 1814)

Common Name/Nom commun: hickory shad, alose matte.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include fall herring and shad herring. Recorded by Hildebrand (1963) (see gulf of mainebbok 1963c) from Campobello Island, New Brunswick but this record needs confirmation. Other common names include bonejack, fall herring, freshwater taylor, hickory jack, shad, shad fall herring, shad herring, hareng and matowacca. French common name from FishBase (downloaded 10 February 2004).

Alosa pseudoharengus
(Wilson, 1811)

Common Name/Nom commun: alewife, gaspareau.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include gaspereau, mulhaden, sawbelly, spreau, kyack and golden shad; grey, glut, branch, spring and river herring; faux hareng, hareng de rivière and hareng fluvial.

Alosa sapidissima
(Wilson, 1811)

Common Name/Nom commun: American shad, alose savoureuse.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include shad, Atlantic shad, white shad, common shad and gate. Found in British Columbia as a result of introductions in the U.S.A. (Crossman, 1984).

Brevoortia tyrannus
(Latrobe, 1802)

Common Name/Nom commun: Atlantic menhaden, alose tyran.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include pogy, mossbunker, old wife, fat back, bugfish, bughead and menhaden tyran.

Clupea harengus
Linnaeus, 1758

Common Name/Nom commun: Atlantic herring, hareng atlantique.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include herring, sea herring, Labrador herring, Digby chick, bloater, kipper, skadlin, sperling, brit, yawling, mattie, sid and hareng; blueback herring and alose d'été (when fresh from the water and iridescent by the food industry); and sardine, Canadian sardine and sardine canadienne (when canned as young).

Clupea pallasii
Valenciennes, 1847

Common Name/Nom commun: Pacific herring, hareng du Pacifique.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include herring, Easter herring, California herring, seld, hareng, pirkroartitak, krolleliprark, iituuq and kavisilâq.

Dorosoma cepedianum
(Lesueur, 1818)

Common Name/Nom commun: gizzard shad, alose à gésier.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include hickory shad, lake shad, jack shad, skipjack, mud shad, sawbelly, hairy back and stink shad.

Etrumeus teres
(DeKay, 1842)

Common Name/Nom commun: round herring, shadine.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Atlantic round herring, red-eye round herring and shadine rond.

Sardinops sagax
(Jenyns, 1842)

Common Name/Nom commun: Pacific sardine, sardine du Pacifique.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include sardine, pilchard and California pilchard. Sardinops caeruleus (Girard, 1854) is recognised as a synonym or the subspecies in Canadian waters. Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Family/Famille Engraulidae (3)
(anchovies/anchois)

Anchoa hepsetus
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/Nom commun: striped anchovy, piquitinga.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include anchois rayé and broad-striped anchovy.

Engraulis eurystole
(Swain & Meek, 1884)

Common Name/Nom commun: silver anchovy, anchois argenté.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include anchovy, anchois and anchois gris.

Engraulis mordax
Girard, 1854

Common Name/Nom commun: northern anchovy, anchois du Pacifique.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include anchovy, Californian anchoveta, California anchovy, ocean northern anchovy, plain anchovy, Pacific anchovy and anchois.

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Order/Ordre Cypriniformes (76)
Family/Famille Cyprinidae (58)
(carps and minnows/carpes et ménés)

This family was formerly referred to simply as carps/carpes.

Acrocheilus alutaceus
Agassiz & Pickering, 1855

Common Name/Nom commun: chiselmouth, bouche coupante.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include hardmouth and squaremouth. Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Campostoma anomalum
(Rafinesque, 1820)

Common Name/Nom commun: central stoneroller, roule-caillou.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Mississippi stoneroller, stone lugger, racehorse chub, greased chub, blue sucker, steel-backed chub, rotgut minnow, doughbelly, mammy and tallow-mouth minnow. The taxon Campostoma pullum (Agassiz, 1854) is regarded as a distinct species, a synonym or a subspecies by authors and is the species or subspecies in Canadian waters. If recognised as a species distinct from C. anomalum, then C. anomalum does not occur in Canada and C. pullum would have the common name central stoneroller (and C. anomalum would be the Ohio stoneroller) (Nelson et al., 2004). Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Carassius auratus
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/Nom commun: goldfish, carassin.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include golden carp and cyprin doré. Variably established in the wild across Canada as escapees from garden ponds and aquaria (Crossman, 1984).

Clinostomus elongatus
(Kirtland, 1840)

Common Name/Nom commun: redside dace, méné long.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include red-sided shiner. Eschmeyer's "Catalog of Fishes" has 1840 while the AFS list (Nelson et al., 2004) has 1841 (q.v.). The date is open to interpretation. Special Concern (COSEWIC).

Couesius plumbeus
(Agassiz, 1850)

Common Name/Nom commun: lake chub, méné de lac.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include northern chub, creek chub, chub minnow, Moose Lake minnow and bottlefish. Couesius greeni Jordan, 1893 described from Stuarts Lake near Fort St. James (headwaters of Fraser River), British Columbia is regarded as a synonym or a subspecies.

Ctenopharyngodon idella
(Valenciennes, 1844)

Common Name/Nom commun: grass carp, carpe de roseau.
Comments/Commentaires: Introduced to Alberta and Ontario.

Cyprinella spiloptera
(Cope, 1867)

Common Name/Nom commun: spotfin shiner, méné bleu.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include silver-finned minnow, satin-finned minnow, blue minnow, steelcoloured shiner and lemonfin minnow.

Cyprinus carpio
Linnaeus, 1758

Common Name/Nom commun: common carp, carpe.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include carp; German, European, king, mirror or leather carp; German bass, freshwater carp, buglemouth bass and carpe d'eau douce. Introduced or colonising from neighbouring jurisdictions and reproducing in Québec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia (Crossman, 1984).

Erimystax x-punctatus
(Hubbs & Crowe, 1956)

Common Name/Nom commun: gravel chub, gravellier.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include spotted chub. Extirpated from Canada (COSEWIC; Nelson et al., 2004). E. x. trautmani (Hubbs and Crowe, 1956) (eastern gravel chub/?) was the subspecies form Canadian waters.

Exoglossum maxillingua
(Lesueur, 1817)

Common Name/Nom commun: cutlip minnow, bec-de-lièvre.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include cutlips minnow, eye-picker and little sucker. Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Hybognathus argyritis
Girard, 1856

Common Name/Nom commun: western silvery minnow, méné d'argent de l'ouest.
Comments/Commentaires: Threatened (COSEWIC).

Hybognathus hankinsoni
Hubbs, 1929

Common Name/Nom commun: brassy minnow, méné laiton.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include grass minnow and Hankinson's minnow.

Hybognathus regius
Girard, 1856

Common Name/Nom commun: eastern silvery minnow, méné d'argent.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include méné bleu and méné d'argent de l'est. Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Hybognathus placitus
Girard, 1856

Common Name/Nom commun: plains minnow, ?.
Comments/Commentaires: Recorded by Sylvetser et al. (2006) from Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan.

Luxilus chrysocephalus
Rafinesque, 1820

Common Name/Nom commun: striped shiner, méné rayé.
Comments/Commentaires: Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Luxilus cornutus
(Mitchill, 1817)

Common Name/Nom commun: common shiner, méné à nageoires rouges.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include eastern shiner, redfin shiner, silver shiner, silverside, rough-head, hornyhead, creek shiner, dace and skipjack. The subspecies in Canadian waters is L. c. frontalis (Agassiz, 1850)(northern common shiner/?).

Lythrurus umbratilis
(Girard, 1856)

Common Name/Nom commun: redfin shiner, méné d'ombre.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include compressed redfin. Not at Risk (COSEWIC). The subspecies in Canadian waters is L. u. cyanocephalus (Copeland in Jordan 1877)(northern redfin shiner/?).

Macrhybopsis storeriana
(Kirtland, 1844)

Common Name/Nom commun: silver chub, méné à grandes écailles.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Storer's chub. Eschmeyer's "Catalog of Fishes" has 1844 and the AFS list (Nelson et al., 2004) has 1845. (q.v.). The date is open to interpretation. Special Concern (COSEWIC).

Margariscus nachtriebi
(Cox, 1896)

Common Name/Nom commun: northern pearl dace, mulet perlé du nord.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include nachtrieb dace, northern minnow and northern dace. Margariscus margarita (Cope, 1867), the Allegheny pearl dace, was long recognised as the taxon in Canada but this name is now restricted to populations from Vermont and New York southward.

Mylocheilus caurinus
(Richardson, 1836)

Common Name/Nom commun: peamouth, méné deux-barres.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include peamouth chub and northern dace.

Nocomis biguttatus
(Kirtland, 1840)

Common Name/Nom commun: hornyhead chub, tête à taches rouges.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include river chub, jerker, horned chub, Indian chub and redtail chub. The publication date is given as 1841 in the AFS list (Nelson et al., 2004) and both this work and Eschmeyer's "Catalog of Fishes" (downloaded 29 September 2004) cite the same source for a date correction. Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Nocomis micropogon
(Cope, 1865)

Common Name/Nom commun: river chub, méné baton.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include crested chub and eastern river chub. The name micropogon is based on a hybrid and is unavailable but was conserved by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (Nelson et al., 2004). Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Notemigonus crysoleucas
(Mitchill, 1814)

Common Name/Nom commun: golden shiner, méné jaune.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include eastern golden shiner, roach, bream, American roach, American bream, butterfish, sunfish, windfish, goldfish, dace, chub, bitterhead, gudgeon, young shad, chatte de l'est, méné plat and petite laquaiche. N. c auratus (Rafinesque, 1819), the western golden shiner, is recorded from western Great Lakes drainages and southern Hudson Bay drainages and intergrades with N. c crysoleucas, the eastern golden shiner, from eastern Lake Ontario and Atlantic drainages.

Notropis anogenus
Forbes, 1885

Common Name/Nom commun: pugnose shiner, méné camus.
Comments/Commentaires: Endangered (COSEWIC).

Notropis atherinoides
Rafinesque, 1818

Common Name/Nom commun: emerald shiner, méné émeraude.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include lake shiner, lake silverside, buckeye shiner, Milwaukee shiner, Lake Michigan shiner, grands yeux, vitreux and épingle.

Notropis bifrenatus
(Cope, 1867)

Common Name/Nom commun: bridle shiner, méné d'herbe.
Comments/Commentaires: Special Concern (COSEWIC).

Notropis blennius
(Girard, 1856)

Common Name/Nom commun: river shiner, méné de rivière.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include poor minnow and straw-coloured minnow.

Notropis buchanani
Meek, 1896

Common Name/Nom commun: ghost shiner, méné fantôme.
Comments/Commentaires: Possibly introduced to Canada (Nelson et al., 2004). Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Notropis dorsalis
(Agassiz, 1854)

Common Name/Nom commun: bigmouth shiner, méné à grande bouche.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Gilbert's minnow. Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Notropis heterodon
(Cope, 1865)

Common Name/Nom commun: blackchin shiner, menton noir.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include black-striped minnow. Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Notropis heterolepis
Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1893

Common Name/Nom commun: blacknose shiner, museau noir.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include northern blacknose shiner, blacknose dace, black-sided minnow, Muskoka minnow, Cayuga minnow and blunt-nosed minnow. Described from a tributary to the Qu'Appelle River at Fort Qu'Appelle (50°46'N, 103°48'W), ca 2 miles southwest of Melville, Saskatchewan.

Notropis hudsonius
(Clinton, 1824)

Common Name/Nom commun: spottail shiner, queue à tache noire.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include spawneater and sucking carp.

Notropis percobromus
(Cope, 1871)

Common Name/Nom commun: carmine shiner, tête carminée.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include méné carmin. The French common name was translated by C. B. Renaud (pers. comm., 7 April 2006). The occurrence of this species in Manitoba is documented by Wood et al. (2002). Threatened (COSEWIC).

Notropis photogenis
(Cope, 1865)

Common Name/Nom commun: silver shiner, méné-miroir.
Comments/Commentaires: Special Concern (COSEWIC).

Notropis rubellus
(Agassiz, 1850)

Common Name/Nom commun: rosyface shiner, tête rose.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include skipjack. Described from Lake Superior at Sault Sainte Marie in either Michigan or Ontario. Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Notropis stramineus
(Cope 1865)

Common Name/Nom commun: sand shiner, méné paille.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include shore minnow and straw-coloured minnow. Notropis ludibundus (Girard, 1856) has priority and has been used for this taxon but stramineus was conserved by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.

Notropis texanus
(Girard, 1856)

Common Name/Nom commun: weed shiner, méné diamante.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Richardson shiner and northern weed shiner. Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Notropis volucellus
(Cope, 1865)

Common Name/Nom commun: mimic shiner, méné pâle.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include channel mimic shiner.

Opsopoeodus emiliae
Hay, 1881

Common Name/Nom commun: pugnose minnow, petit-bec.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include small-mouthed minnow. Special Concern (COSEWIC).

Phoxinus eos
(Cope, 1861)

Common Name/Nom commun: northern redbelly dace, ventre rouge du nord.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include red-bellied dace. The publication date is given as 1862 in the AFS list (Nelson et al., 2004).

Phoxinus neogaeus
Cope, 1867

Common Name/Nom commun: finescale dace, ventre citron.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include bronze minnow, New World minnow, rainbow chub and leatherback.

Pimephales notatus
(Rafinesque, 1820)

Common Name/Nom commun: bluntnose minnow, ventre-pourri.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include bluenosed chub, bullhead minnow and fat-head chub. Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Pimephales promelas
Rafinesque, 1820

Common Name/Nom commun: fathead minnow, tête-de-boule.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include northern fathead minnow, blackhead minnow and Tuffy minnow.

Platygobio gracilis
(Richardson, 1836)

Common Name/Nom commun: flathead chub, méné à tête plate.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Saskatchewan dace. Described from the Saskatchewan River at Carleton House, Saskatchewan.

Ptychocheilus oregonensis
(Richardson, 1836)

Common Name/Nom commun: northern pikeminnow, sauvagesse du nord.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include northern squawfish, Columbia squawfish, Columbia River dace, gray sea trout, gray weakfish and seatrout.

Rhinichthys atratulus
(Hermann, 1804)

Common Name/Nom commun: eastern blacknose dace, naseux noir de l'est.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include blacknose dace, striped dace, redfin dace, brook minnow, potbelly, pottlebelly and slicker. See under Rhinichthys obtusus below; found from eastern Lake Ontario eastwards.

Rhinichthys cataractae
(Valenciennes, 1842)

Common Name/Nom commun: longnose dace, naseux de rapides.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Great Lakes longnose dace and stream shooter. Described from the vicinity of Niagara Falls, North America. Rhinichthys dulcis (Girard, 1856) is a synonym or subspecies from Canada but this needs investigation. Rhinichthys cataractae smithi Nichols, 1916 (Banff longnose dace, naseux de rapides de Banff) from the Hot Spring at Cave and Basin, Banff, Alberta is a valid but Extinct subspecies (COSEWIC).

Rhinichthys falcatus
(Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1893)

Common Name/Nom commun: leopard dace, naseux leopard.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include silvery grey minnow. Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Rhinichthys obtusus
Agassiz, 1854

Common Name/Nom commun: western blacknose dace, naseux noir de l'ouest.
Comments/Commentaires: Reported as the species in Manitoba and Ontario; formerly recognised there as Rhinichthys atratulus which is now the eastern species of Atlantic Slope drainages (Nelson et al., 2004).

Rhinichthys osculus
(Girard, 1856)

Common Name/Nom commun: speckled dace, naseux moucheté.
Comments/Commentaires: Endangered (COSEWIC).

Rhinichthys sp.

Common Name/Nom commun: Nooksack dace, naseux Nooksack.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Nooky dace and Nooky longnose dace. Endangered (COSEWIC).

Rhinichthys umatilla
(Gilbert & Evermann, 1894)

Common Name/Nom commun: Umatilla dace, naseux d'Umatilla.
Comments/Commentaires: Special Concern (COSEWIC).

Rhodeus sericeus
(Pallas, 1776)

Common Name/Nom commun: bitterling, bouvière.
Comments/Commentaires: Introduced to Ontario; uncertain whether established.

Richardsonius balteatus
(Richardson, 1836)

Common Name/Nom commun: redside shiner, méné rose.
Comments/Commentaires: Descibed from the Columbia River (or a tributary thereof) in British Columbia or Washington.

Scardinius erythrophthalmus
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/Nom commun: rudd, gardon rouge.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Semotilus atromaculatus
(Mitchill, 1818)

Common Name/Nom commun: creek chub, mulet à cornes.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include horned dace, common chub, brook chub, tommycod, silvery chub, mud chub and blackspot chub.

Semotilus corporalis
(Mitchill, 1817)

Common Name/Nom commun: fallfish, ouitouche.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include American chub, silver chub, mohawk, white chub, roughnosed chub, windfish, corporal, chivin, whiting and shining dace.

Tinca tinca
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/Nom commun: tench, tanche.
Comments/Commentaires: An exotic in British Columbia presumed to be from dispersal of introductions in neighbouring Washington (Crossman, 1984).

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Family/Famille Catostomidae (18)
(suckers/catostomes)

This family was formerly called meuniers in French.

Carpiodes cyprinus
(Lesueur, 1817)

Common Name/Nom commun: quillback, couette.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include carpsucker, lake quillback, eastern quillback, long-finned sucker, broad mullet, white carp, silvery carp, drum, plains carpsucker and brème d'Amérique.

Catostomus catostomus
(Forster, 1773)

Common Name/Nom commun: longnose sucker, meunier rouge.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include sturgeon, northern, finescale, red, black or red-sided sucker; mullet, milugiak, nannilik, miluiak and miluqiaq. Described from the Severn River, tributary to Hudson Bay, Ontario. Catostomus catostomus lacustris Bajkov, 1927 (Jasper longnose sucker, meunier de Jasper) is described from Lake Annette, Lake Beauvert, Lake Patricia, and Lake Pyramid, Alberta.

Catostomus columbianus
(Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1893)

Common Name/Nom commun: bridgelip sucker, meunier de l'ouest.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Columbia small-scaled sucker.

Catostomus commersonii
(Lacepède, 1803)

Common Name/Nom commun: white sucker, meunier noir.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include common, common brook, coarse scaled, fine scaled, June, eastern, mud, slender, grey or black sucker; black whitehorse, mullet, carp, carpe à cochon and catostome noir. The spelling commersonnii is correct but the above is in common usage and thus justified by the International Code on Zoological Nomenclature (Nelson et al., 2004).

Catostomus macrocheilus
Girard, 1856

Common Name/Nom commun: largescale sucker, meunier à grandes écailles.
Comments/Commentaires: None/Aucune.

Catostomus platyrhynchus
(Cope, 1874)

Common Name/Nom commun: mountain sucker, meunier des montagnes.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include northern mountain sucker, plains mountain sucker and Jordan's sucker. Not at Risk (COSEWIC).

Catostomus sp.

Common Name/Nom commun: Salish sucker, meunier de Salish.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include Campbell sucker and meunier de Campbell. Endangered (COSEWIC).

Erimyzon sucetta
(Lacepède, 1803)

Common Name/Nom commun: lake chubsucker, sucet de lac.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include western lake chubsucker, pin sucker and sweet sucker. Threatened (COSEWIC). E. s. kennerlii (Girard, 1856) (western lake chubsucker/?) is the subspecies in Canada.

Hypentelium nigricans
(Lesueur, 1817)

Common Name/Nom commun: northern hog sucker, meunier à tête carrée.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include hognose sucker, mud sucker, black sucker, riffle sucker, bighead sucker, stoneroller, hogmolly, hammerhead, boxhead, hog mullet, stonetoter and stonelugger.

Ictiobus cyprinellus
(Valenciennes, 1844)

Common Name/Nom commun: bigmouth buffalo, buffalo à grande bouche.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include buffalo, buffalofish, common buffalofish, gourdhead, gourdseed; redmouth, roundhead, bullhead, stubnose, brown, bullmouth, bullnose, pugnose, mud, white, lake, blue, slough and trumpet buffalo. Special Concern (COSEWIC).

Ictiobus niger
(Rafinesque, 1819)

Common Name/Nom commun: black buffalo, buffalo noir.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include mongrel, round, blue, prairie, pumpkinseed, deepwater, bastard and current buffalo, chopper, buglemouth, bugler, router, blue rooter, reefer, kicker, chucklehead and buoy tender. Possibly introduced to Canada (Nelson et al., 2004). Special Concern (COSEWIC).

Minytrema melanops
(Rafinesque, 1820)

Common Name/Nom commun: spotted sucker, meunier tacheté.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include striped sucker, black sucker, sand sucker, speckled sucker, spotted redhorse, corncob sucker and winter sucker. Special Concern (COSEWIC).

Moxostma anisurum
(Rafinesque, 1820)

Common Name/Nom commun: silver redhorse, chevalier blanc.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include silver mullet, whitenose redhorse, white nose sucker and suceur blanc.

Moxostoma carinatum
(Cope, 1870)

Common Name/Nom commun: river redhorse, chevalier de rivière.
Comments/Commentaires: Other common names include mullet, redhorse, redhorse sucker, river mullet