The Bonneville cisco (''Prosopium gemmifer'') is a species of
cisco
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endemic
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to
Bear Lake along the
Utah
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Idaho
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border, United States. It is one of three species of
whitefish endemic to Bear Lake, the others being the
Bear Lake whitefish and the
Bonneville whitefish.
The species is listed as a ''Wildlife Species of Concern'' by the
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
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References
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Prosopium
Fish of the Western United States
Taxa named by John Otterbein Snyder
Fish described in 1919
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