Common whitefish
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| Coregonus lavaretus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
The common whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) is a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family (family Salmonidae). It is the type species of its genus.
The gwyniad (C. pennantii) is sometimes considered to be a subspecies or population of C. lavaretus. The common whitefish is also sometimes called the lavaret or the powan, although the latter refers more properly to C. clupeoides.
[edit] References
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). Coregonus lavaretus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006.
- "Coregonus lavaretus". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. October 2004 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2004.
- Coregonus lavaretus (TSN 161950). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 12 December 2004.
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