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Ptychocheilus oregonensis (Seatrout; Northern squawfish; Northern pikeminnow; Gray weakfish; Gray sea trout; Columbia squawfish; Columbia River dace)

Synonyms: Cyprinus oregonensis; Leuciscus oregonensis; Ptychocheilus gracilis; Ptychocheilus oregonense; Ptychocheilus rapax
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Wikipedia Abstract

The northern pikeminnow, or Columbia River dace (Ptychocheilus oregonensis) is a large member of the minnow family, Cyprinidae. Until 1999, when the American Fisheries Society officially changed the common name to pikeminnow, the four species of this genus were known as squawfish. Female northern pikeminnow reach sexual maturity at about six years, males in three to five. They can live longer than 15 years, reaching over 24 inches and eight pounds. The current world record weight for the pikeminnow, 13½ pounds, is held by Christopher Borger and Michael Ray of Edmonton, Alberta. A mature female can lay 30,000 eggs annually. Pikeminnow are voracious predators, and in the Columbia and Snake Rivers, salmon smolts comprise a large part of their diets. Their populations have flourished with the
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Attributes

Adult Length [1]  25 inches (63 cm)
Brood Dispersal [1]  In the open
Brood Egg Substrate [1]  Lithophils (rock-gravel)
Brood Guarder [1]  No
Litter Size [1]  83,000
Maximum Longevity [1]  19 years
Diet [2]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [1]  4 years 6 months

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area V 103172 Washington, United States
Olympic Biosphere Reserve II 922805 Washington, United States

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Pandion haliaetus (Osprey)[4]
Ptychocheilus oregonensis (Seatrout)[4]
Sander vitreus (Walleye)[4]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
3FOOD OF THE SQUAWFISH Ptychocheilus oregonensis (Richardson) OF THE LOWER COLUMBIA RIVER, RICHARD B. THOMPSON, FISHERY BULLETIN 158 (1959)
4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0