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Coregonus
Linnaeus, 1758
- whitefish
(fish)
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Coregoninae (Subfamily) - whitefishes
..Prosopium (Genus)
..Stenodus (Genus)
..Coregonus (Genus) - whitefish
....Coregonus (Subgenus)
....Coregonus albellus (Species)
....Coregonus albula (Species) - vendace
....Coregonus alpenae (Species)
....Coregonus alpinus (Species)
....Coregonus arenicolus (Species)
....Coregonus artedi (Species) - cisco
....Coregonus atterensis (Species)
....Coregonus autumnalis (Species)
....Coregonus bavaricus (Species)
....Coregonus bezola (Species)
....Coregonus candidus (Species)
....Coregonus chadary (Species)
....Coregonus clupeoides (Species)
....Coregonus confusus (Species)
....Coregonus danneri (Species)
....Coregonus fatioi (Species)
....Coregonus fera (Species)
....Coregonus fontanae (Species)
....Coregonus gutturosus (Species)
....Coregonus heglingus (Species)
....Coregonus hiemalis (Species)
....Coregonus hoferi (Species)
....Coregonus hoyi (Species) - bloater
....Coregonus huntsmani (Species) - Atlantic whitefish
....Coregonus johannae (Species) - deepwater cisco
....Coregonus kiyi (Species) - kiyi
....Coregonus laurettae (Species) - Bering cisco
....Coregonus lucidus (Species)
....Coregonus lucinensis (Species)
....Coregonus macrophthalmus (Species)
....Coregonus maraena (Species)
....Coregonus maxillaris (Species)
....Coregonus megalops (Species)
....Coregonus nasus (Species) - broad whitefish
....Coregonus nelsoni (Species) - Alaska whitefish
....Coregonus nigripinnis (Species) - blackfin cisco
....Coregonus nilssoni (Species)
....Coregonus nobilis (Species)
....Coregonus oxyrinchus (Species) - houting
....Coregonus palaea (Species)
....Coregonus pallasii (Species)
....Coregonus peled (Species) - northern whitefish
....Coregonus pennantii (Species)
....Coregonus pidschian (Species) - humpback whitefish
....Coregonus pollan (Species) - Irish pollan
....Coregonus reighardi (Species) - shortnose cisco
....Coregonus renke (Species)
....Coregonus restrictus (Species)
....Coregonus sardinella (Species) - least cisco
....Coregonus stigmaticus (Species) - schelly
....Coregonus subautumnalis (Species)
....Coregonus suidteri (Species)
....Coregonus trybomi (Species)
....Coregonus ussuriensis (Species)
....Coregonus vandesius (Species) - vendace
....Coregonus wartmanni (Species)
....Coregonus widegreni (Species)
....Coregonus zenithicus (Species) - longjaw cisco
....Coregonus zuerichensis (Species)
....Coregonus zugensis (Species)
....Leucichthys (Subgenus)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
(C. Linnaeus, 1758), nom. cons.
Original name
:
Linnaeus, C. 1758.
Syst. Nat.
(ed. 10)
1
: 310.
Subsequent rank
:
Attributes
Conserved name (nom. cons. [prop.]) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 81.1]
Ref:
[Anonymous], (2012)
: 181 (Opinion 93).
Types
Type of
:
Coregonidae
(Family)
Type of
:
Coregoninae
(Subfamily)
Bonaparte, 1845
Ref:
R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021
: 20 May 2025; [<10 Jun 2025].
[inferred]
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]
:
Coregonus
(Subgenus)
Linnaeus, 1758
Ref:
J.S. Nelson, 2006
: 201.
[implicit]
Variants
Unavailable name
:
Coregonus
(Genus)
nom. inval.
Homonyms
Junior homonym
:
Coregonus
(Genus)
Lacepède, 1803, nom. illeg.
Ref:
[Anonymous], (2012)
: 181 (Direction 56).
Synonyms
Including
:
Argyrosomus
(Subgenus)
Agassiz, 1850, nom. illeg.
Ref:
R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021
: 20 May 2025.
Including
:
Thrissomimus
(Subgenus)
Gill, 1911
Ref:
R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021
: 20 May 2025.
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
marenen
:
houtingen
Ref:
B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
whitefish
Ref:
T.I. Storer et al., 1979
: 683.
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