Stenodus

Genus of fishes

Stenodus
Nelma (Stenodus nelma)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Subfamily: Coregoninae
Genus: Stenodus
J. Richardson, 1836
Synonyms
  • Luciotrutta Günther, 1866

Stenodus is a genus of large-sized whitefish in the family Salmonidae. It consists of two species; one of them (beloribitsa) is extinct in wild. The two species have alternatively been considered subspecies of the single species Stenodus leucichthys.

Species

  • Stenodus leucichthys — beloribitsa: the Caspian Sea basin
  • Stenodus nelma — nelma, sheefish or inconnu: rivers of the Arctic basin.

Systematics

The genus Stenodus is distinctive from other whitefishes due to its size and specialized predator morphology; however, evidence of independence from the broader freshwater whitefish genus Coregonus is not clearly evident.[1] [2]

References

  1. ^ Bernatchez L, Colombani F, Dodson JJ (1991). "Phylogenetic relationships among the subfamily Coregoninae as revealed by mitochondrial DNA restriction analysis" (PDF). Journal of Fish Biology. 39. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing: 283–290. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.1991.tb05091.x.
  2. ^ Campbell MA, Buser TJ, Alfaro ME, López JA (2020-07-03). "Addressing incomplete lineage sorting and paralogy in the inference of uncertain salmonid phylogenetic relationships". PeerJ. 8: e9389. doi:10.7717/peerj.9389. PMC 7337038. PMID 32685284.

Sources

  • Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Stenodus in FishBase. February 2013 version.
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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
Stenodus
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