Stenodus
| Stenodus | |
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| Nelma (Stenodus nelma) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Salmoniformes |
| Family: | Salmonidae |
| Subfamily: | Coregoninae |
| Genus: | Stenodus J. Richardson, 1836 |
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Stenodus is a genus of large-sized whitefish in the Salmonidae family. It consists of two species; one of them (beloribitsa) is extinct in wild. The two species have alternatively been considered subspecies of the single species Stenodus leucichthys.
Species
- Stenodus leucichthys — beloribitsa: the Caspian Sea basin
- Stenodus nelma — nelma, sheefish or inconnu: rivers of the Arctic basin.
Systematics
The genus Stenodus is not phylogenetically distinct from the broader freshwater whitefish genus Coregonus, although it is phenotypically characterized by a specialized predator morphology.[1]
References
- ↑ Bernatchez, L; Colombani, F; Dodson, JJ (1991). "Phylogenetic relationships among the subfamily Coregoninae as revealed by mitochondrial DNA restriction analysis" (PDF). Journal of Fish Biology (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing) 39: 283–290. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.1991.tb05091.x. ISSN 0022-1112.
Sources
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Stenodus in FishBase. February 2013 version.
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