BC Conservation Data Centre: Species Summary
Cymatogaster aggregata
Shiner Perch
| Scientific Name: | Cymatogaster aggregata Gibbons, 1854 | ||||||||||
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| English Name: | Shiner Perch | ||||||||||
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| Scientific Name - Concept Reference: | Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea, and W.B. Scott. 1991. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 20. 183 pp. | ||||||||||
| Classification Level: | Species | ||||||||||
| Species Group: | Vertebrate Animal | ||||||||||
| Species Code: | F-CYAG | ||||||||||
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| Conservation Status / Legal Designation | |||||||||||
| Global Status: | G5 (Dec 2017) | ||||||||||
| Provincial Status: | SNR | ||||||||||
| BC List: | Not Reviewed | ||||||||||
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| General Description: | |||||||||||
| Global Reproduction Comments: | Males mature at birth; juvenile females mate soon after birth. Spawns May-August, mostly June and early July. Delayed fertilization. Gestation 5-6 months, 3-36 young are born in June or July (Morrow 1980). | ||||||||||
| Global Ecology Comments: | Found in large schools. | ||||||||||
| Migration Characteristics: (Global / Provincial) | |||||||||||
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Nonmigrant: Local Migrant: Distant Migrant: Within Borders Migrant: |
N / Y / N / na / |
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| Global Migration Comments: | Moves onshore-offshore seasonally. | ||||||||||
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| Global Habitat Comments: | Habitat includes calm, shallow marine waters, bays, and estuaries, sometimes brackish or fresh water. Usually this fish occurs in shallow inshore water (e.g., around eelgrass beds, piers, pilings) during the summer; has been taken in water as deep as 146 meters during the winter (Morrow 1980, Eschmeyer and Herald 1991). Pregnant females move to shallow water before giving birth. | ||||||||||
| Food Habits: |
Herbivore: Adult, Immature
Invertivore: Adult, Immature |
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| Global Food Habits Comments: | Opportunistic. Diet varies with size of fish and season. Young feed mostly on copepods. Adults eat a variety of small crustaceans, mollusks and algae. | ||||||||||
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| Provincial Phenology: (1st half of month/ 2nd half of month) |
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| Colonial Breeder: | N | ||||||||||
| Length(cm)/width(cm)/Weight(g): | 15/ / | ||||||||||
| Elevation (m) (min / max): |
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| Distribution | |||||||||||
| Endemic: | N | ||||||||||
| Global Range Comment: | This fish is abundant and widespread along the Pacific coast of North America from Bahia San Quintin, Baja California, north to Port Wrangel, Alaska. | ||||||||||
| Authors / Contributors | |||||||||||
| Global Information Author: | Hammerson, G. | ||||||||||
| Last Updated: | Nov 15, 2011 | ||||||||||
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| References and Related Literature | |||||||||||
Lee, D. S., C. R. Gilbert, C. H. Hocutt, R. E. Jenkins, D. E. McAllister, and J. R. Stauffer, Jr. 1980. Atlas of North American freshwater fishes. North Carolina State Museum of Natural History, Raleigh, North Carolina. i-x + 854 pp. |
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Morrow, J.E. 1980. The freshwater fishes of Alaska. Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, Anchorage, AK. 248 pp. |
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Moyle, P. B. 1976a. Inland fishes of California. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. 405 pp. |
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Nelson, J. S. 1984. Fishes of the world. Second edition. John Wiley & Sons, New York. xv + 523 pp. |
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Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea, and W.B. Scott. 1991. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 20. 183 pp. |
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Wydoski, R. S., and R. R. Whitney. 1979. Inland fishes of Washington. The University of Washington Press, Seattle. 220 pp. |
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Suggested Citation:
B.C. Conservation Data Centre. 2011. Species Summary: Cymatogaster aggregata. B.C. Minist. of Environment. Available: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eswp/ (accessed Jun 30, 2024).