Animalia > Chordata > Salmoniformes > Salmonidae > Coregonus > Coregonus oxyrinchusCoregonus oxyrinchus (Houting; Coregono bicudo)Synonyms: Coregonus lavaretus oxyrhynchus; Coregonus lavaretus oxyrinchus; Coregonus laveratus oxyrinchus; Coregonus oxyrhynchus; Salmo oxyrinchus (homotypic); Salmo rostratus; Salmo thymallus latus; Salmo thymallus var. latus; Tripteronotus hautin Language: Czech; Danish; Dutch; Finnish; French; Gaelic, Irish; German; Greek; Italian; Mandarin Chinese; Norwegian; Portuguese; Serbian; Spanish; Swedish The houting (Coregonus oxyrinchus) is a European, allegedly extinct species of whitefish in the Salmonidae family. It is native to the estuaries and rivers draining to the North Sea. The houting is distinguishable from other Coregonus taxa by having a long, pointed snout, an inferior mouth and 38—46 gill rakers. The houting once occurred in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and England. |
| Brood Dispersal [1] | In the open | | Brood Egg Substrate [1] | Lithophils | | Brood Guarder [1] | No | | Migration [2] | Anadromous |  | | Diet [1] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Grenouillet, G. & Schmidt-Kloiber., A.; 2006; Fish Indicator Database. Euro-limpacs project, Workpackage 7 - Indicators of ecosystem health, Task 4, www.freshwaterecology.info, version 5.0 (accessed on July 3, 2012). ♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.orgEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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