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Coregonus is a diverse genus of fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae). The Coregonus species are known as whitefishes. The genus contains at least 68 described extant taxa, but the true number of species is a matter of debate. The type species of the genus is Coregonus lavaretus.

Most Coregonus species inhabit lakes and rivers, and several species, including the Arctic cisco (C. autumnalis), the Bering cisco (C. laurettae), and the least cisco (C. sardinella) are anadromous, moving between salt water and fresh water.

Many whitefish species or ecotypes, especially from the Great Lakes and the Alpine lakes of Europe, have gone extinct over the past century or are endangered. Among 12 freshwater fish considered extinct in Europe, 6 are Coregonus.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> All Coregonus species are protected under appendix III of the Bern Convention,<ref name="Bern">Council of Europe, 1979. Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Heritage. Bern, Switzerland. Available at: http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Treaties/Html/104.htm</ref> and Annex IV of the EC Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

TaxonomyEdit

Phylogenetic evidence indicates that the most basal member of the genus is the highly endangered Atlantic whitefish (C. huntsmani), which is endemic to a single river basin in Nova Scotia, Canada. The Atlantic whitefish is thought to have diverged from the rest of the genus during the mid-Miocene, about 15 million years ago.<ref name="Whitelaw_2015">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Crête-Lafrenière_2012">Template:Cite journal</ref>

The genus was previously subdivided into two subgenera Coregonus ("true whitefishes") and Leucichthys ("ciscoes"), Coregonus comprising taxa with sub-terminal mouth and usually a benthic feeding habit, Leucichthys those with terminal or supra-terminal mouth and usually a pelagic plankton-feeding habit. This classification is not natural however: based on molecular data, ciscoes comprise two distinct lineages within the genus. Moreover, the genus Stenodus is not phylogenetically distinct from Coregonus; although Stenodus occupies a basal position within the genus, phylogenetic evidence indicates that C. huntsmani is even more basal than it.<ref name="Crête-Lafrenière_2012" /><ref name="Bernatchez_1991">Template:Cite journal</ref>

The scientific name given to this genus of fish comes from the Greek κόρη (kórē) "daughter ; eye pupil" and γωνία (gōnía) "angle",<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> because their pupil makes an angle, even though they share this feature with a large number of other fish.

Species diversityEdit

There is much uncertainty and confusion in the classification of the many species of this genus. Particularly, one extreme view of diversity recognises just two main species in Northern and Central Europe, the common whitefish C. lavaretus and the vendace C. albula, whereas others would divide these into numerous, often narrowly distributed species. A drastic increase in number of recognized species occurred in 2007, when a review advocated that more than 50 local European populations should be considered as distinct based on morphological differences.<ref name="Kottelat_2007">Template:Cite book</ref> It has been estimated that several of them are very young, having separated from each other less than 15,000 years ago.<ref name="Hudson_2016">Template:Cite journal</ref> Many of these were primarily defined based on number of gill rakers. Although this largely is hereditary, the number is highly variable (even within single populations and species), can change relatively fast in response to changes and genetic studies have shown that they often are of limited use in predicting relationships among populations (a large difference in gill raker number does not necessarily equal a distant relationship).<ref name="Ostbye_2005">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="Jacobsen_2012">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Genetic differences between several of the recently proposed species, even ones that are relatively distinct morphologically, are very limited and sometimes they are not monophyletic.<ref name="Ostbye_2005" /><ref name="Jacobsen_2012" /> Various Coregonus, whether regarded as separate species or not, readily interbreed with each other.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A review of whitefish in the United Kingdom found that the identification key provided in 2007 did not match most individuals and that solid evidence for more than one species in that region is lacking.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Many European lakes have more than one Coregonus morph differing in ecology and morphology (especially gill rakers).<ref name="Bhat_2014">Template:Cite journal</ref> Such morphs are sometimes partially reproductively isolated from each other, leading to suggestions of recognizing them as separate but clinal species.<ref name="Hudson_2016" /> The morphs or clinal species may rapidly disappear (in 15 years or less, equalling three Coregonus generations) by merging into a single in response to changes in the habitat.<ref name="Bhat_2014" /> A similar pattern can be seen in North America where the ciscoes of the Coregonus artedi complex in the Great Lakes and elsewhere comprise several, often co-occurring morphs or ecotypes, whose taxonomic status remains controversial.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="Eshenroder_2016">Template:Cite report</ref><ref>Template:Cite report</ref>

SpeciesEdit

In 2017, FishBase listed 78 species, including the more than 50 proposed for Europe in 2007.<ref>{{#invoke:Cite taxon|main|fishbase|genus=|species=|subspecies=}}</ref> Some of these are recently extinct (marked with a dagger, "†") and C. reighardi is likely extinct.<ref name="Kottelat_2007" /><ref name = " Eshenroder_2016"/>

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Cisco or lake herring, Coregonus artedi
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Bloater, Coregonus hoyi
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Common whitefish, Coregonus lavaretus (sensu lato)
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Coregonus nelsonii
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Coregonus pidschian

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