Coregonus alpenae

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Overview

Family : Salmonids ;

Extinct

Common Names

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Description

Family Salmonidae

Distribution: Northern Hemisphere, but widely introduced in cold waters for sports and aquaculture. Many are anadromous , spending part of their life at sea , but returning to freshwater where all species spawn in a gravel bed in rivers or streams ; most fish die after spawning. Small cycloid scales . Gill membranes reaching far forward, detached from isthmus. Axillary process on pelvics . Last three vertebrae directed upward. No spines. Adipose fin present. Attains 1.5 m (maybe 2 m) maximum length . Highly valuable in sport and commercial fisheries. There is disagreement about the status of some species and genera.The family Salmonidae belongs to the Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes ) and the Order Salmoniformes. It contains 11 genera and 66 species. It may be found in Marine , Brackish , and Freshwater environments and is primarily Peripheral/diadromous. Members of this family are not used in the aquarium trade. Reproductively, most members of this family are nonguarders. The main mode of swimming of adult fish in this family is subcarangiform. Compared with other fish, the activity level of this family tends to be normal. Members of this family have been dated back to the Cretaceous period. This family may be found from 80° n to 24° s and 180° w to 180° e. Etymology of this family name : Latin, salmo, -onis = the same fish

Physical Description

Habitat

Biome: Fresh water . Demersal .

Ecology: This demersal , freshwater species formerly was found in deep waters of freshwater lakes.[1]


List of Habitats :5.5Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Leucichthys alpenae Koelz, 1924

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Similar Species

Members of the genus Coregonus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 248 species and subspecies in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

C. abyssicola · C. acronius · C. acronius bavarica · C. albellus · C. albula (European Whitefish) · C. albula albula (European Whitefish) · C. albula finnica · C. albula ladogae · C. albula ladogensis · C. albula lucinensis · C. albula norvegica · C. albula olonensis · C. albula perejaslawica · C. albula pereslavicus · C. albula pereslawicus · C. albula topozeri · C. albula vodlosericus (European Cisco) · C. albus · C. alpenae (Longjaw Cisco) · C. alpinus · C. amboinensis · C. annectens confusus · C. annectus balleoides · C. arenicolus · C. artedi (Cisco Or Lake Herring) · C. artedii · C. artedii chautauqua · C. artedi harengus · C. artedi x · C. aspius · C. atikameg manitobensis · C. atterensis · C. autumnalis (Arctic Cisco) · C. autumnalis autumnalis (Arctic Cisco) · C. autumnalis laurettae · C. autumnalis migratorius (Arctic Cisco) · C. autumnalis pollan · C. baicalensis (European Whitefish) · C. balleus · C. bartlettii (Siskiwit Lake Cisco) · C. baunti · C. bavaricus · C. bezola · C. megalops · C. brevis · C. huntsmani · C. candidus · C. clupeoides · C. chadary (Chadary Whitefish) · C. clupeaformis (Great Lakes Whitefish) · C. clupeaformis dustini · C. clupeaformis gulliveri · C. clupeaformis latus · C. clupeaformus · C. clupeformis · C. clupeiformis · C. clupeoides (Powan) · C. confusus · C. conorhynchus · C. coregonus · C. couesii · C. coulteri · C. coulterii · C. crassirostris compactus · C. cylindraceum · C. danneri · C. dispersus · C. dispersus cognatus · C. elegans · C. exigmas albellus · C. exiguus · C. exiguus danneri · C. fatioi · C. fera · C. fera sanctibenedicti · C. fontanae · C. generosus · C. gracilior · C. gracilis · C. gutturosus · C. harengus · C. gutturosus · C. heglingus · C. hiemalis (Lake Geneva Whitefish) · C. hoferi · C. holsatus · C. holsatus vigrensis · C. hoyi (Bloater) · C. hoyl · C. hubbsi (Ives Lake Cisco) · C. humilis · C. hunstmani · C. huntsmani (Atlantic Tripletail) · C. hybrid · C. hyemalis · C. johannae (Deepwater Chimaera) · C. kennicotti · C. kiyi (Kiyi) · C. kiyi orientalis (Lake Ontario Kiyi) · C. huntsmani

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Further Reading

• A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Report presented at the eighty-ninth annual meeting, Clearwater, Fla., Sept. 16-18, 1959. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1960. ENG url p. 11.
• Canadian Wildlife Service website: Species at Risk
• Field Museum of Natural History bulletin. Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, [1930]-c1990. ENG url p. 8.
• Fishery bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, The Service, U.S. Govt Print. Off. ENG url p. 3.
• Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Groombridge, B. 1992. Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth’s Living Resources. Report compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Chapman and Hall, London.
• IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• Our living resources: a report to the nation on the distribution, abundance, and health of U.S. plants, animals, and ecosystems / [edited by], Edward T. LaRoe [et al.]. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Biological Service, 1995. ENG url p. 491.
• Page, L.M. and Burr, B.M. 1991. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
• Proceedings of the third USA-USSR symposium on the effects of pollutants upon aquatic ecosystems. Duluth, Minn.: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1980. ENG url p. 196.
• Scott, W.B. and E.J. Crossman (1973). Freshwater fishes of Canada. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. 184:1-966.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed March 23, 2007.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 04, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 04, 2008:

• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3860169
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-149107
• Fishbase Species ID: 60806
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 161949
• IUCN ID: 5361
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1103

Footnotes

1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008. [back]

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