Animalia > Chordata > Salmoniformes > Salmonidae > Coregonus > Coregonus lavaretus

Coregonus lavaretus (Houting; Lake Chud whitefish; Lavaret; Baltic whitefish; Common whitefish; European whitefish; Pollan; Powan; Schelly; Whitefish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Coregonus lavaretus is a species of freshwater whitefish, in the family Salmonidae. It is the type species of its genus Coregonus. There are widely different concepts about the delimitation of the species Coregonus lavaretus and about the number of species in the genus Coregonus in general.
View Wikipedia Record: Coregonus lavaretus

Infraspecies

Coregonus lavaretus angermanensis
Coregonus lavaretus f. bolmensis
Coregonus lavaretus f. bullarensis
Coregonus lavaretus f. karelica
Coregonus lavaretus f. lapponica
Coregonus lavaretus f. norvegica
Coregonus lavaretus f. okoniensis
Coregonus lavaretus f. polonica
Coregonus lavaretus f. ringsjoensis
Coregonus lavaretus f. typica
Coregonus lavaretus imandrae
Coregonus lavaretus jarvii
Coregonus lavaretus karelicus
Coregonus lavaretus kilone
Coregonus lavaretus melga
Coregonus lavaretus microcephalus
Coregonus lavaretus microps
Coregonus lavaretus neschka
Coregonus lavaretus palloni
Coregonus lavaretus pravdinianus
Coregonus lavaretus pravdininaus
Coregonus lavaretus prawdini
Coregonus lavaretus sevanicus
Coregonus lavaretus var. lavaretus
Coregonus lavaretus var. maraenoides
Coregonus lavaretus vimbaeformis

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Coregonus lavaretus

Attributes

Adult Length [1]  29 inches (73 cm)
Brood Dispersal [2]  In the open
Brood Egg Substrate [2]  Lithophils
Brood Guarder [2]  No
Maximum Longevity [1]  15 years
Migration [3]  Anadromous
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Female Maturity [1]  3 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Cantabric Coast - Languedoc France, Spain Palearctic Temperate Coastal Rivers    
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    
Northern Baltic Drainages Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden Palearctic Polar Freshwaters    

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Range Map

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 2Grenouillet, 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).
♦ 3Myers, 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.org
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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