North America: Atlantic, Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, and upper Mississippi, Missouri, and Peace-Mackenzie River drainages from New Brunswick to Yukon Territory and British Columbia in Canada; south to New York, Wisconsin and Wyoming in USA
Definition: length from the tip of the snout to the tip of the longer lobe of the caudal fin, usually measured with the lobes compressed along the midline. It is a straight-line measure, not measured over the curve of the body