Coregonus Totally Explained

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Coregonus Linnaeus, 1758, is a genus of fish in the salmon family (family Salmonidae). The type species is the common whitefish (C. lavaretus). The Coregonus species are known as whitefishes.
The Arctic cisco (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 (C. johannae), and the longjaw cisco (C. alpenae) became extinct in the last half of the twentieth century. The blackfin cisco (C. nigripinnis) is considered extirpated from most of its previous range, and is now found only in Lake Nipigon. The shortnose cisco (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:

Coregonus albellus
Coregonus albula — Vendace
Coregonus alpenae — Longjaw cisco (extinct)
Coregonus alpinus
Coregonus arenicolus
Coregonus artedi — Cisco or lake herring
Coregonus atterensis
Coregonus autumnalis — Arctic cisco
Coregonus bavaricus
Coregonus bezola
Coregonus candidus
Coregonus chadary — Khadary whitefish
Coregonus clupeaformis — Lake whitefish
Coregonus clupeoides — Powan
Coregonus confusus — Pfarrig (extinct)
Coregonus cylindraceus — Anadyr and Belaya river basins
Coregonus danneri
Coregonus fatioi
Coregonus fera — Fera (extinct)
Coregonus fontanae
Coregonus gutturosus - Kilch (extinct)
Coregonus heglingus
Coregonus hiemalis - Lake Geneva white-fish (extinct)
Coregonus hoferi
Coregonus hoyi — Bloater
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
Coregonus muksun — Muksun
Coregonus nasus — Broad whitefish
Coregonus nelsoni — Alaska whitefish
Coregonus nigripinnis — Blackfin cisco
Coregonus nilssoni
Coregonus nipigon - Nipigon cisco
Coregonus nobilis
Coregonus oxyrhynchus — Houting
Coregonus palaea
Coregonus pallasii
Coregonus peled — Peled
Coregonus pennantii — Gwyniad
Coregonus pidschian — Humpback whitefish
Coregonus pollan — Irish pollan
Coregonus reighardi — Shortnose cisco (extinct?)
Coregonus renke
Coregonus restrictus
Coregonus sardinella — Least cisco
Coregonus stigmaticus — Schelly
Coregonus subautumnalis
Coregonus suidteri
Coregonus trybomi
Coregonus tugun lenensis — Lena tugun
Coregonus tugun tugun — Tugun
Coregonus ussuriensis — Amur whitefish
Coregonus vandesius
Coregonus wartmanni
Coregonus widegreni — Valaam whitefish
Coregonus zenithicus — Shortjaw cisco
Coregonus zuerichensis
Coregonus zugensis This fish is also an alternative for caviar.

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