Coregonus pallasii

Species of fish

Coregonus pallasii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Genus: Coregonus
Species:
C. pallasii
Binomial name
Coregonus pallasii
Valenciennes, 1848
Synonyms
  • Coregonus aspius Smitt, 1883[1]

Coregonus pallasii is a putative species of whitefish in the family Salmonidae,[1] part of the Coregonus lavaretus complex (European whitefish).

It is a lacustrine fish, indicated to live in large lakes of Sweden, Finland and Karelia (Russia). A typical size is 42 cm and maximum size 60 cm.[1]

In Sweden, the name C. pallasii has been used of a whitefish form known as aspsik in the large lakes of the northern river basins, including lakes Pakijaure, Hornävan, Storlaisan, Storuman, Vojmsjön and Storlögdan.[1] Currently these populations are no more considered separate from the common whitefish, but as a morphotype within Coregonus maraena.[2] Also in Finland, only one species of the C. lavaretus group is recognized, and C. lavaretus f. pallasi has been used to denote the zooplankton-feeding ecomorph "northern densely-rakered whitefish".[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Coregonus pallasii Valenciennes, 1848". www.fishbase.se. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  2. ^ Coregonus maraena morphotype pallasii aspsik Artfakta. Artdatabanken. SLU (read Jan 2022)
  3. ^ Siika Kalahavainnot. Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke).
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Freshwater whitefish
Members of
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
Members of
genus Prosopium
  • P. abyssicola (Bear Lake whitefish)
  • P. coulterii (pygmy whitefish)
  • P. cylindraceum (round whitefish)
  • P. spilonotus (Bonneville whitefish)
  • P. williamsoni (mountain whitefish)
Members of
genus Stenodus
  • S. nelma (nelma or inconnu)
  • S. leucichthys (beloribitsa)
Family Salmonidae
Taxon identifiers
Coregonus pallasii