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A major threat to the lake whitefish is an invasive parasite species, the sea lamprey. It is one of a number of species (in addition to the lake trout and lake herring) aggressively attacked by sea lamprey. In Lake Michigan the sea lamprey began to decimate indigenous fish populations in the 1930s and 1940s.
Lake trout or mackinaw Salvelinus namaycush: Salmonidae No Mountain whitefish: Prosopium williamsoni: Salmonidae Yes Kokanee salmon: Oncorhynchus nerka: Salmonidae No Arctic grayling: Thymallus arcticus: Salmonidae Yes Bigmouth shiner: Notropis dorsalis: Cyprinidae Yes Black bullhead: Ameiurus melas: Ictaluridae Yes Bluehead sucker: Catostomus ...
White fish (Atlantic cod) White fish fillet (halibut – on top) contrasted with an oily fish fillet (salmon – at bottom)Whitefish or white fish is a fisheries term for several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), whiting (Merluccius bilinearis), haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), hake (Urophycis), and pollock (Pollachius), among others.
Coregonus is a diverse genus of fish in the salmon family . 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.
The following list of known freshwater fish species, subspecies, and hybrids occurring in the U.S. state of Idaho is taken from Wydoski and Whitney (2003). Some scientific names have been updated or corrected. Asterisks denote introduced fishes. The list includes several anadromous species.
Some species in Arctic regions of Asia and North America forage in marine waters. [2] Prosopium Jordan, 1878 – round whitefishes, which includes six species, three of which occur only in a single lake. [2] [6] Stenodus Richardson, 1836 – inconnus, which includes two species, sometimes considered a single species with two subspecies. [7]
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
The mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) is one of the most widely distributed salmonid fish of western North America. [3] It is found from the Mackenzie River drainage in Northwest Territories, Canada through western Canada and the northwestern USA in the Pacific, Hudson Bay and upper Missouri River basins to the Truckee River drainage in Nevada and Sevier River drainage in Utah.