Coregonus sardinella
| Coregonus sardinella | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Salmoniformes |
| Family: | Salmonidae |
| Subfamily: | Coregoninae |
| Genus: | Coregonus |
| Species: | C. sardinella |
| Binomial name | |
| Coregonus sardinella Vallenciennes, 1848 | |
Coregonus sardinella, known as the sardine cisco, or as the least cisco in North America, is a fresh- and brackishwater species of salmonid fish that inhabits rivers, estuaries and coastal waters of the marginal seas of the Arctic Basin, and some large lakes of those areas.
In North America it is found from the Murchison River (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 Arctic coast to Kara Sea and Kara River at the north end of the Urals. It has been introduced in some lakes and rivers in Uzbekistan.
Coregonus sardinella is very closely related to the European cisco or vendace Coregonus albula, and also close to the Siberian peled whitefish C. peled.[1]
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Coregonus sardinella" in FishBase. 4 2012 version.
- "Coregonus sardinella". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2008. Retrieved May 2012.
- ↑ 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.
External links
- C. sardinella Valenciennes,1848 - сибирская ряпушка www.sevin.ru
- Il coregone siberiano, Coregonus sardinella Valenciennes, 1848 www.ittiofauna.org (with distribution map & photo)
