Arctic cisco

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Arctic cisco
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Subfamily: Coregoninae
Genus: Coregonus
Species: C. autumnalis
Binomial name
Coregonus autumnalis
(Pallas, 1776)
Subspecies

C. a. autumnalis
C. a. migratorius

Arctic cisco (Coregonus autumnalis) is an anadromous species of freshwater whitefish that inhabits the Arctic parts of Siberia, Alaska and Canada. It also has freshwater populations in Ireland, known as Pollan. They have a risk of becoming extinct.

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