Alaska whitefish

Alaska whitefish

Conservation status
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Salmoniformes
Family:	Salmonidae
Subfamily:	Coregoninae
Genus:	Coregonus
Species:	C. nelsonii
Binomial name
*Coregonus nelsonii* T. H. Bean, 1884

The Alaska whitefish (Coregonus nelsonii) is a species of whitefish in the family Salmonidae. It is found in parts of northwestern North America, where it occurs only in small and large rivers, and rarely in lakes. The maximum length recorded for this species is 56.0 cm (22.0 in).

The Alaska whitefish is part of the Coregonus clupeaformis complex (lake whitefishes).

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2009). "Coregonus nelsonii" in FishBase. December 2009 version.
"Coregonus nelsonii". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 10 December 2009.

Freshwater whitefish

Members of genus Coregonus	Coregonus albellus (autumn brienzlig) C. albula (European cisco or vendace) †C. alpenae (longjaw cisco) C. alpinus C. anaulorum C. arenicolus C. artedi (cisco) C. atterensis C. austriacus C. autumnalis (Arctic cisco) C. baerii C. baicalensis C. baunti C. bavaricus C. bezola C. candidus C. chadary C. clupeaformis (lake whitefish) C. clupeoides C. confusus C. danneri C. duplex C. fatioi †C. fera (true fera) C. fontanae †C. gutturosus (Lake Constance whitefish) C. heglingus †C. hiemalis (gravenche) C. hoferi C. holsata C. hoyi (bloater) C. hubbsi (Ives Lake cisco) C. huntsmanni (Atlantic whitefish) †C. johannae (deepwater cisco) C. kiletz C. kiyi (kiyi) C. ladogae C. laurettae (Bering cisco) C. lavaretus C. lucinensis C. lutokka C. macrophthalmus C. maraena C. maraenoides (Peipsi whitefish) C. maxillaris C. megalops C. migratorius (omul) C. muksun (muksun) C. nasus (broad whitefish) C. nelsonii (Alaska whitefish) C. nigripinnis (blackfin cisco) C. nilssoni C. nipigon C. nobilis C. oxyrinchus (houting) C. palaea C. pallasii C. peled (peled) C. pennatii (gwyniad) C. pidschian (humpback whitefish or pidschian) C. pollan (pollan) C. pravdinellus C. reighardi (shortnose cisco) C. renke C. restrictus C. sardinella (sardine cisco) C. stigmaticus (schelly) C. subautumnalis C. suidteri C. trybomi C. tugun C. ussuriensis C. vandesius (vendace) C. vessicus C. wartmanni C. widegreni C. zenithicus (shortjaw cisco) C. zuerichensis C. zugensis

Members of genus Prosopium	P. abyssicola (Bear Lake whitefish) P. coulterii (pygmy whitefish) P. cylindraceum (round whitefish) P. spilonotus (Bonneville whitefish) P. williamsoni (mountain whitefish)

Members of genus Stenodus	S. nelma (nelma or inconnu) S. leucichthys (beloribitsa)

Family Salmonidae

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