Sympatric Occurrence of Two Species of Humpback Whitefish in Squanga Lake, Yukon Territory

• Published in: Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
• Main Author: Lindsey, C. C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1963
• Subjects: General Medicine; Yukon; Squanga Lake; Coregonus pidschian; Humpback whitefish; pidschian; Yukon river
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f63-050; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f63-050

Squanga Lake in the Canadian headwaters of the Yukon River contains two species of humpback whitefish, characterized by modal first arch gill raker counts of 23 and 28 but with overlap in the range of counts. The species can be separated more sharply by raker counts of the second arch, also with mod...