Bonneville cisco (prosopium gemmifer) caught at Bear Lake Feb 2019

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to Bear Lake along the

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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

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References

* Prosopium Fish of the Western United States Taxa named by John Otterbein Snyder Fish described in 1919 {{Salmoniformes-stub