Coregonus sardinella

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Coregonus sardinella
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Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Genus: Coregonus
Species:
C. sardinella
Binomial name
Coregonus sardinella

Coregonus sardinella, known as the least cisco or the sardine cisco, is a fresh- and brackishwater species of salmonid fish that inhabits rivers, estuaries and coastal waters of the marginal seas of the Arctic Basin, as well as some large lakes of those areas.

In North America it is found from the (Nunavut) west through the Bering Strait to the Bristol Bay (Bering Sea) in Alaska, and in the Russian Arctic from the northern part of the Bering Sea across the Siberian Arctic coast to Kara Sea and Kara River and further to the Pechora River drainage on the European side.[2][3] It has been introduced in some lakes and rivers in Uzbekistan.

Coregonus sardinella is closely related to the European cisco or vendace Coregonus albula, and also is close to the Siberian peled whitefish C. peled.[4][3]

References[]

  1. ^ Freyhof, J.; Kottelat, M. (2008). "Coregonus sardinella". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T62223A12581797. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T62223A12581797.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2021). "Coregonus sardinella" in FishBase. August 2021 version.
  3. ^ a b Sendek DS (2021) Phylogenetic relationships in vendace and least cisco, and their distribution areas in western Eurasia. Annales Zoologici Fennici 58: 289–306.
  4. ^ Bernatchez L, Colombani F, Dodson JJ (1991) Phylogenetic relationships among the subfamily Coregoninae as revealed by mitochondrial DNA restriction analysis, Journal of Fish Biology 39 (Suppl A):283-290.

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