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Coregonus

Coregonus Linnaeus

Carolus Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus was a Sweden botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern alpha taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology....
, 1758, is a genus

Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
of fish

Fish

A fish is any marine biology vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic , covered with scale , and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins....
in the salmon

Salmon

Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the family are called trout,the difference is often attributed to the migratory life of the salmon as compared to the residential behaviour of trout, this holds true for the Atlantic salmon....
family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
(family Salmonidae

Salmonidae

Salmonidae is a Family of ray-finned fish, the only living family of the Order Salmoniformes. It includes salmon, trout, Salvelinus, freshwater whitefishes and grayling ....
). The type species

Type species

In taxonomy, a type species is the species that originally defined a genus . It is an individual specimen that fixes the name of a genus . Two different definitions are used interchangeably, in a general term and a botanical term....
is the common whitefish

Common whitefish

The common whitefish is a species of freshwater fish of the salmon family . It is the type species of its genus.This fish is very common in Russian Arctic lakes, where it is known as sig ....
(C. lavaretus). The Coregonus species are known as whitefishes.

The Arctic cisco

Arctic Cisco

Arctic cisco is an anadromy species of freshwater whitefish that inhabits the Arctic parts of Siberia, Alaska and Canada. It also has freshwater populations in Ireland, known as Coregonus pollan....
(C. autumnalis), the Bering cisco (C. laurettae), and the sardine cisco (C. sardinella) are anadromous, moving between salt water and fresh water.

The deepwater cisco

Deepwater cisco

The deepwater cisco was one of the largest Cisco in the Great Lakes. Its average length was 30cm and it was about 1.0 kilogram in weight. Occurring only in Lakes Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, and inhabited waters between 50 and 150 metres deep, it was difficult to distinguish from other ciscoes and was possibly the same species as the shor...
(C. johannae), and the longjaw cisco

Longjaw cisco

The longjaw cisco was a deep water Cisco or chub, usually caught at depths of 100 metres or more from Lakes Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, and Lake Erie....
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Coregonus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus was a Sweden botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern alpha taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology....
, 1758, is a genus
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
of fish
Fish

A fish is any marine biology vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic , covered with scale , and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins....
in the salmon
Salmon

Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the family are called trout,the difference is often attributed to the migratory life of the salmon as compared to the residential behaviour of trout, this holds true for the Atlantic salmon....
family
Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
(family Salmonidae
Salmonidae

Salmonidae is a Family of ray-finned fish, the only living family of the Order Salmoniformes. It includes salmon, trout, Salvelinus, freshwater whitefishes and grayling ....
). The type species
Type species

In taxonomy, a type species is the species that originally defined a genus . It is an individual specimen that fixes the name of a genus . Two different definitions are used interchangeably, in a general term and a botanical term....
is the common whitefish
Common whitefish

The common whitefish is a species of freshwater fish of the salmon family . It is the type species of its genus.This fish is very common in Russian Arctic lakes, where it is known as sig ....
(C. lavaretus). The Coregonus species are known as whitefishes.

The Arctic cisco
Arctic Cisco

Arctic cisco is an anadromy species of freshwater whitefish that inhabits the Arctic parts of Siberia, Alaska and Canada. It also has freshwater populations in Ireland, known as Coregonus pollan....
(C. autumnalis), the Bering cisco (C. laurettae), and the sardine cisco (C. sardinella) are anadromous, moving between salt water and fresh water.

The deepwater cisco
Deepwater cisco

The deepwater cisco was one of the largest Cisco in the Great Lakes. Its average length was 30cm and it was about 1.0 kilogram in weight. Occurring only in Lakes Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, and inhabited waters between 50 and 150 metres deep, it was difficult to distinguish from other ciscoes and was possibly the same species as the shor...
(C. johannae), and the longjaw cisco
Longjaw cisco

The longjaw cisco was a deep water Cisco or chub, usually caught at depths of 100 metres or more from Lakes Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, and Lake Erie....
(C. alpenae) became extinct in the last half of the twentieth century. The blackfin cisco
Blackfin cisco

The blackfin cisco is a member of the Coregonus sub-family. This silvery, deep-bodied fish with black fins, large eyes, a blunt snout and a terminal mouth, is one of the largest species of cisco ....
(C. nigripinnis) is considered extirpated from most of its previous range, and is now found only in Lake Nipigon
Lake Nipigon

Lake Nipigon is the largest lake entirely within the boundaries of the Canadian province of Ontario and is sometimes described as the sixth Great Lakes ....
. The shortnose cisco
Shortnose cisco

The shortnose cisco is a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family . The species is native to the Nearctic ecozone, formerly occurring in Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, and Lake Ontario in Canada and the United States....
(C. reighardi) may also be extinct and is so considered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, although IUCN classifies it as Critically Endangered. IUCN considers several other species of whitefish to be Vulnerable. All Coregonus species are protected under appendix III of the Bern Convention.

Species
There is much uncertainty and confusion in the classification of the many of species of this genus. The following are the species as listed by FishBase
FishBase

FishBase is a comprehensive database of information about fish. , it included descriptions of over 30,000 species, over 260,000 common names in hundreds of languages, over 46,000 pictures, and references to more than 42,000 works in the scientific literature....
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Coregonus albellus
Coregonus albula
Coregonus albula

The vendace is a freshwater whitefish found in lakes and rivers in northern Europe, especially Finland, Sweden, Russia and Estonia, and in some lochs in Scotland and lakes in England....
— Vendace
Vendace

Vendace can refer to either of two fish in the genus Coregonus:*Coregonus albula*Coregonus vandesiusVendace can also refer to:...
Coregonus alpenae — Longjaw cisco
Longjaw cisco

The longjaw cisco was a deep water Cisco or chub, usually caught at depths of 100 metres or more from Lakes Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, and Lake Erie....
(extinct)
Coregonus alpinus
Coregonus arenicolus
Coregonus artedi — Cisco or lake herring
Coregonus atterensis
Coregonus autumnalis — Arctic cisco
Arctic Cisco

Arctic cisco is an anadromy species of freshwater whitefish that inhabits the Arctic parts of Siberia, Alaska and Canada. It also has freshwater populations in Ireland, known as Coregonus pollan....
Coregonus bavaricus
Coregonus bezola
Coregonus candidus
Coregonus chadary — Khadary whitefish
Coregonus clupeaformis — Lake whitefish
*Coregonus clupeoides — Powan
Coregonus confusus — Pfarrig
Pfarrig

The Pf?rrit is a freshwater fish from Switzerland. It was described as Coregonus annectens confusus by Victor Fatio in 1885 from a syntype which has been lost in 1902....
Coregonus cylindraceus — Anadyr
Anadyr River

Anadyr is a river in the extreme northeast of Siberia, Russia.The river rises in the Anadyr Range, about 67?N latitude and 173?E longitude, flows through Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, at first southwest and then east, and enters the Gulf of Anadyr of the Bering Sea after a course of about 800 kilometres ....
and Belaya
Belaya River (Chukotka)

The Belaya River is a left tributary of the Anadyr River in Far East Siberia. It flows roughly eastwards from its source and, about 40 km from the Arctic Circle it flows southwards....
river basins
Coregonus danneri
Coregonus fatioi
Coregonus fera
Coregonus fera

Coregonus fera, commonly called the true fera is a presumed extinct freshwater fish from Lake Geneva in Switzerland and France....
— Fera
Fera

Fera or FERA may refer to...* Federation of European Film Directors* The extinct freshwater fish, Coregonus fera.* A local name for several fish species and the eponymous dish, Fera ...
(extinct)
Coregonus fontanae
Coregonus gutturosus - Kilch (extinct)
Coregonus heglingus
Coregonus hiemalis - Lake Geneva white-fish
Lake Geneva white-fish

The Lake Geneva white-fish , also known as Little Fera or Gravenche is a presumed extinct freshwater fish from Lake Geneva in Switzerland and France....
(extinct)
Coregonus hoferi
Coregonus hoyi — Bloater
Bloater

The bloater is a freshwater fish native to the Great Lakes. It is silver in color with a pink and purple iridescence and reaches an average length of 9 inches ....
Coregonus huntsmani (previous synonym: Coregonus canadensis) — Atlantic whitefish
Coregonus johannae — Deepwater cisco (extinct)
Coregonus kiyi — Kiyi
Coregonus laurettae — Bering cisco
Coregonus lavaretus baicalensis — European whitefish
Coregonus lavaretus lavaretus — Common whitefish
Coregonus lucidus
Coregonus lucinensis
Coregonus macrophthalmus
Coregonus maraena
Coregonus maxillaris
Coregonus megalops — Lacustrine fluvial whitefish
Coregonus migratorius — Omul
Omul

The omul, Coregonus migratorius, also known as Baikal omul , is a relatively abundant Coregonus species of the salmon family endemism to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia....
Coregonus muksun
Muksun

The Muksun is a type of Freshwater whitefish. Its name is derived from its Russian language name ??????.The muksun is a widespread fish in the Siberian Arctic waters....
— Muksun
Coregonus nasus — Broad whitefish
Coregonus nelsoni — Alaska whitefish
Coregonus nigripinnis — Blackfin cisco
Blackfin cisco

The blackfin cisco is a member of the Coregonus sub-family. This silvery, deep-bodied fish with black fins, large eyes, a blunt snout and a terminal mouth, is one of the largest species of cisco ....
Coregonus nilssoni
Coregonus nipigon - Nipigon cisco
Coregonus nobilis
Coregonus oxyrhynchus — Houting
Houting

The houting is an extinct species of fish in the Salmonidae family. This species is distinguishable by having a long, pointed snout, an inferior mouth and 38?46 gill rakers....
(extinct)
Coregonus palaea
Coregonus pallasii
Coregonus peled — Peled
Coregonus pennantii — Gwyniad
Coregonus pidschian — Humpback whitefish
Coregonus pollan
Coregonus pollan

Pollan is a freshwater coregonus that is known to occur in five Irish lakes, Lough Neagh, Lower Lough Erne, Lough Ree, Lough Derg and Lough Allen....
— Irish pollan
Coregonus reighardi — Shortnose cisco
Shortnose cisco

The shortnose cisco is a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family . The species is native to the Nearctic ecozone, formerly occurring in Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, and Lake Ontario in Canada and the United States....
(extinct?)
Coregonus renke
Coregonus restrictus
Coregonus sardinella — Least cisco
Coregonus stigmaticus — Schelly
Coregonus subautumnalis
Coregonus suidteri
Coregonus trybomi
Coregonus trybomi

Coregonus trybomi is a species of fish in the Salmonidae family. It is found in Finland and Sweden....
Coregonus tugun lenensis — Lena tugun
Coregonus tugun tugun — Tugun
Coregonus ussuriensis — Amur whitefish
Coregonus vandesius
Coregonus vandesius

Coregonus vandesius is a freshwater fish found in the United Kingdom. Its common name is vendace, which otherwise refers to Coregonus albula....
Coregonus wartmanni
Coregonus widegreni — Valaam whitefish
Coregonus zenithicus — Shortjaw cisco
Coregonus zuerichensis
Coregonus zugensis
This fish is also an alternative for caviar.