River redhorse (Moxostoma carinatum) : assessment and update status report

Official title: COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the river redhorse (Moxostoma carinatum) in Canada

COSEWIC
Assessment and Update Status Report
on the
River Redhorse
Moxostoma Carinatum
in Canada

River Redhorse (Moxostoma carinatum)

Special Concern
2006



COSEWIC
Committee on the Status
of Endangered Wildlife
in Canada
COSEWIC logo


COSEPAC

Comité sur la situation
des espèces en péril
au Canada


COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:

COSEWIC. 2006. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the river redhorse Moxostoma carinatum in Canada.  Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.  Ottawa.  vi + 31 pp.
(Species at Risk Status Reports)

Previous Reports:

Parker, B. 1987. COSEWIC update status report on the river redhorse Moxostoma carinatum in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. 1-12 pp.

Parker, B. and P. McKee. 1983. COSEWIC status report on the river redhorse Moxostoma carinatum in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. 1-10 pp.

 

Production note:
COSEWIC would like to acknowledge Scott Reid and Hilary Gignac from the Watershed Science Centre, Nicholas E. Mandrak from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and Nathalie Vachon and Pierre Dumont from the Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la faune du Québec for writing the update status report on the river redhorse Moxostoma carinatum. The report was contracted to the Watershed Science Centre by Environment Canada and was overseen and edited by Claude Renaud, Co-chair, COSEWIC Freshwater Fishes Species Specialist Subcommittee.

For additional copies contact:

COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa ON  K1A 0H3

Tel.: 819–953–3215
Fax: 819–994–3684
E-mail: COSEWIC/COSEPAC@ec.gc.ca
http://www.cosewic.gc.ca

Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur le chevalier de rivière (Moxostoma carinatum) au Canada – Mise à jour.

Cover illustration:
River redhorse - Illustration by Joe Tomelleri, under licence to Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Reproduced with permission.

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2006
Catalogue No.: CW69-14/493-2006E-PDF
ISBN: 0-662-43297-5

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