Pfarrig
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| Coregonus confusus (Fatio, 1885) |
The Pfarrig (Coregonus confusus) is a presumed extinct freshwater fish from Lake Murten in Switzerland. It was described as Coregonus annectens confusus by Victor Fatio in 1885 from a syntype which has been lost in 1902. The last collection was made in 1885. A survey in 1950 led by Emile Dottrens failed to rediscover this species.
The causes for its disappearance were possibly the Jura water corrections between 1868 and 1878. The hydrography of the lake was heavily modified and the food supplies were destroyed.
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- Maurice Kottelat: European Freshwater Fishes. An heuristic checklist of the freshwater fishes of Europe (exclusive of former USSR), with an introduction for non - systematists and comments on nomenclature and conservation; Biologia: Section Zoology vol. 52/5, Slovak Academic Press, Bratislava 1997, ISBN 8085665875
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