Coregonus

Coregonus
Coregonus hoyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Salmoniformes
Family:	Salmonidae
Subfamily:	Coregoninae
Genus:	Coregonus Linnaeus, 1758
Species
Nearly 70 extant members

Coregonus is a diverse genus of fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae). The type species is the common whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus). The Coregonus species are known as whitefishes. It contains at least 68 described extant species.

The Arctic cisco (C. autumnalis), the Bering cisco (C. laurettae), and the least cisco (C. sardinella) are anadromous, moving between salt water and fresh water.

Many species in this genus, especially from the Great Lakes and the Alpine lakes of Europe, have gone extinct over the past century or are endangered. 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:

• Coregonus albellus, autumn brienzlig
• Coregonus albula, vendace
• † Coregonus alpenae, longjaw cisco (extinct)
• Coregonus alpinus, kropfer
• Coregonus anaulorum
• Coregonus arenicolus
• Coregonus artedi, cisco
• Coregonus atterensis
• Coregonus autumnalis, Arctic cisco
• Coregonus baicalensis
• Coregonus baunti
• Coregonus bavaricus
• Coregonus bezola, bezoule
• Coregonus candidus
• Coregonus chadary, Khadary whitefish
• Coregonus clupeaformis, lake whitefish
  

  

  Lake whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis
• Coregonus clupeoides, powan
• Coregonus confusus
• Coregonus danneri
• Coregonus fatioi
• † Coregonus fera, fera (extinct)
• Coregonus fontanae, Stechlin cisco
• † Coregonus gutturosus, (extinct)
• Coregonus heglingus
• † Coregonus hiemalis, gravenche (extinct)
• Coregonus hoferi
• Coregonus hoyi, bloater
• Coregonus huntsmani, Atlantic whitefish
• † Coregonus johannae, deepwater cisco (extinct)
• Coregonus kiyi, kiyi
• Coregonus laurettae, Bering cisco
• Coregonus lavaretus
• Coregonus lucidus
• Coregonus lucinensis
• Coregonus lutokka
• Coregonus macrophthalmus
• Coregonus maraena, maraena whitefish
• Coregonus maxillaris
• Coregonus megalops, lacustrine fluvial whitefish
• Coregonus migratorius, omul
• Coregonus muksun, muksun
• Coregonus nasus, broad whitefish
• Coregonus nelsonii, Alaska whitefish
• Coregonus nigripinnis, blackfin cisco
• Coregonus nilssoni
• Coregonus nobilis
• † Coregonus oxyrinchus, houting (extinct)
• Coregonus palaea
• Coregonus pallasii
• Coregonus peled, peled
• Coregonus pennantii, gwyniad
• Coregonus pidschian, humpback whitefish
• Coregonus pollan, pollan
• Coregonus reighardi, shortnose cisco
• Coregonus renke
• Coregonus restrictus
• Coregonus sardinella, least cisco
• Coregonus stigmaticus, schelly
• Coregonus subautumnalis
• Coregonus suidteri
• Coregonus trybomi
• Coregonus tugun, tugun
• Coregonus ussuriensis, Amur whitefish
• Coregonus vandesius, vendace
• Coregonus wartmanni
• Coregonus widegreni, Valaam whitefish
• Coregonus zenithicus, shortjaw cisco
• Coregonus zuerichensis
• Coregonus zugensis

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2009). Species of Coregonus in FishBase. November 2009 version.
• "Coregonus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=161932. Retrieved 12 December 2004. 
• Division of Endangered Species, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "Extinct Species List". U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. http://midwest.fws.gov/endangered/lists/extinct.html. Retrieved 12 December 2004. 

External links

• Media related to Coregonus at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Coregonus at Wikispecies