Coregonus lavaretus
Coregonus lavaretus | |
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European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Salmoniformes |
Family: | Salmonidae |
Genus: | Coregonus |
Species: | C. lavaretus |
Binomial name | |
Coregonus lavaretus | |
Synonyms | |
Coregonus oxyrinchus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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.
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