First record of Ammocrypta pellucida (Agassiz, 1863) (Actinopterygii: Perciformes) from the Lake Ontario drainage basin

Scott Reid; Alan Dextrase

doi:10.15560/10.5.1201

Check List 10(5): 1201-1203, doi: 10.15560/10.5.1201

First record of Ammocrypta pellucida (Agassiz, 1863) (Actinopterygii: Perciformes) from the Lake Ontario drainage basin

Scott Reid^‡, Alan Dextrase^§

‡ Trent University, Canada§ Biodiversity Policy Section, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Canada

Corresponding author: Scott Reid ( reid.scott@ontario.ca )

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Citation: Reid S, Dextrase A (2014) First record of Ammocrypta pellucida (Agassiz, 1863) (Actinopterygii: Perciformes) from the Lake Ontario drainage basin. Check List 10(5): 1201-1203. https://doi.org/10.15560/10.5.1201

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to document the first occurrence of Ammocrypta pellucida in the Lake Ontario basin from samples collected in West Lake, Ontario (Canada) in 2013. Prior to this record, the known range of this imperilled species consisted of two disjunct elements in eastern North America separated by about 500 km. The new occurrence is in the middle of these two distributional elements and suggests that further inventory efforts are warranted in the intervening area.

Keywords

Pisces; eastern North America; West Lake, Ontario