Bonneville cisco

Bonneville cisco

Vulnerable  (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Genus: Prosopium
Species:
P. gemmifer
Binomial name
Prosopium gemmifer
(Snyder, 1919)

The Bonneville cisco (Prosopium gemmifer) is a freshwater cisco endemic to Bear Lake along the Utah-Idaho border of the United States. It is a popular ice-fishing target when the lake freezes and is caught by hand nets during the spawning season of January and February.