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Coregonus clupeaformis (Mitchill, 1818) 
AphiaID: 158726

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Salmoniformes (Order) > Salmonidae (Family) > Coregoninae (Subfamily) > Coregonus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Coregonus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa
  Coregonus albus Lesueur, 1818
Coregonus atikameg Bajkov, 1933
Coregonus clupeiformis (Mitchill, 1818) (misspelling)
Coregonus labradoricus (Richardson, 1836)
Coregonus latior Agassiz, 1850
Coregonus sapidissimus Agassiz, 1850
Salmo clupeaformis Mitchill, 1818
Salmo labradoricus Richardson, 1836
Sources  basis of record: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English common whitefish  [details]
English lake whitefish  [details]
French grand corégone  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution British Columbia [details]
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia [details]
FAO fishing area 67 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Hudson Bay [details]
Hudson Strait [details]
North East Pacific [details]
North Pacific [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
North West Territories [details]
Ungava Bay [details]
Host of  Salmincola thymalli (Kessler, 1868) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Achtheres coregoni (Smith S.I., 1874) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Achtheres corpulentus Kellicott, 1880 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Achtheres pimelodi Krøyer, 1863 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus caeruleus Wilson C.B., 1911 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus confusus Bere, 1931 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus nerkae Roberts, 1963 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus auritus Markevich, 1940 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Salmincola coregonorum (Kessler, 1868) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Salmincola corpulentus (Kellicott, 1882) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Salmincola extumescens (Gadd, 1901) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Salmincola extensa (Kessler, 1868) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Salmincola inermis (Wilson C.B., 1911) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (17 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (93 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (10475 nucleotides; 162 proteins)
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Feeds on insects, mollusks, amphipods, fishes and fish eggs, including their own [details]

Distribution: throughout Alaska and Canada south into New England, the Great Lakes Basin and central Minnesota [details]

Habitat: Found at depths of 18- 128 m, in rivers and, primarily lakes. [details]

Habitat: benthic [details]

Importance: Social- Commercial, gamefish [details]

Predators: Bony fishes, including perch and sea lamprey [details]

Reproduction: External fertilization [details]
Image 
Coregonus clupeaformis - lake whitefish
Coregonus clupeaformis - lake whitefish
added on 2011-02-15 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158726
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 07:39:43Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Coregonus clupeaformis (Mitchill, 1818). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158726 on 2013-05-18
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