Peipsi whitefish
Species of fish
Peipsi whitefish | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Salmoniformes |
Family: | Salmonidae |
Genus: | Coregonus |
Species: | C. maraenoides |
Binomial name | |
Coregonus maraenoides Berg, 1916 | |
Synonyms | |
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The Peipsi whitefish[1][2] (Coregonus maraenoides) is a freshwater whitefish of the family Salmonidae that naturally occurs in Lake Peipus on the border of Estonia and Russia, from where it also ascends to Lake Võrtsjärv to spawn. It has been introduced in Lake Burtnieks (Latvia), Gulf of Riga (Baltic Sea), many lakes of northern Russia, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, Japan, Lake Sevan (Armenia) and Balkash (Kazakhstan).[3] It is a benthopelagic fish up to 60 cm long.
It is part of the European whitefish complex (Coregonus lavaretus sensu lato), and often not distinguished from C. lavaretus.[4]
References
- ^ Kottelat, M. and J. Freyhof, 2007. Handbook of European freshwater fishes. Publications Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland. 646 p.
- ^ Krause, T.; Palm, A. (2000). Peipsi whitefish, Coregonus lavaretus maraenoides Poljakow, in lake Peipsi. [In:] Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Biology, Ecology, 49(1), 91 - 97.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Coregonus maraenoides". FishBase. June 2015 version.
- ^ Bailly, N. (2016). "Coregonus lavaretus maraenoides Berg, 1916". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
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genus Coregonus
- Coregonus albellus (autumn brienzlig)
- C. albula (European cisco or vendace)
- †C. alpenae (longjaw cisco)
- C. alpinus
- C. anaulorum
- C. arenicolus
- C. artedi (cisco)
- C. atterensis
- C. austriacus
- C. autumnalis (Arctic cisco)
- C. baerii
- C. baicalensis
- C. baunti
- C. bavaricus
- C. bezola
- C. candidus
- C. chadary
- C. clupeaformis (lake whitefish)
- C. clupeoides
- C. confusus
- C. danneri
- C. duplex
- C. fatioi
- †C. fera (true fera)
- C. fontanae
- †C. gutturosus (Lake Constance whitefish)
- C. heglingus
- †C. hiemalis (gravenche)
- C. hoferi
- C. holsata
- C. hoyi (bloater)
- C. hubbsi (Ives Lake cisco)
- C. huntsmanni (Atlantic whitefish)
- †C. johannae (deepwater cisco)
- C. kiletz
- C. kiyi (kiyi)
- C. ladogae
- C. laurettae (Bering cisco)
- C. lavaretus
- C. lucinensis
- C. lutokka
- C. macrophthalmus
- C. maraena
- C. maraenoides (Peipsi whitefish)
- C. maxillaris
- C. megalops
- C. migratorius (omul)
- C. muksun (muksun)
- C. nasus (broad whitefish)
- C. nelsonii (Alaska whitefish)
- C. nigripinnis (blackfin cisco)
- C. nilssoni
- C. nipigon
- C. nobilis
- C. oxyrinchus (houting)
- C. palaea
- C. pallasii
- C. peled (peled)
- C. pennatii (gwyniad)
- C. pidschian (humpback whitefish or pidschian)
- C. pollan (pollan)
- C. pravdinellus
- C. reighardi (shortnose cisco)
- C. renke
- †C. restrictus
- C. sardinella (sardine cisco)
- C. stigmaticus (schelly)
- C. subautumnalis
- C. suidteri
- C. trybomi
- C. tugun
- C. ussuriensis
- C. vandesius (vendace)
- C. vessicus
- C. wartmanni
- C. widegreni
- C. zenithicus (shortjaw cisco)
- C. zuerichensis
- C. zugensis
genus Prosopium
- P. abyssicola (Bear Lake whitefish)
- P. coulterii (pygmy whitefish)
- P. cylindraceum (round whitefish)
- P. spilonotus (Bonneville whitefish)
- P. williamsoni (mountain whitefish)
genus Stenodus
- S. nelma (nelma or inconnu)
- S. leucichthys (beloribitsa)
Family Salmonidae
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