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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.
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]
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.
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.
Caspian kutum, also called "White Fish" or "Caspian White Fish" The chimaerae species: Australian ghost shark; Ogilby's ghostshark; Freshwater whitefish, members of the subfamily Coregoninae in the family Salmonidae, including: Atlantic whitefish, Coregonus huntsmani in the genus Coregonus; Common whitefish, Coregonus lavaretus in the genus ...
The round whitefish (Prosopium cylindraceum) is a freshwater species of fish that is found in North American drainages from Alaska to New England, including the Great Lakes except for Lake Erie, [1] and in Arctic tributaries of northeast Asia, as well as northern Kamchatka Peninsula and the northern coasts of the Sea of Okhotsk. [2]
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.
Coregonus lavaretus is a species of freshwater whitefish, in the family Salmonidae. It is the type species of its genus Coregonus. [2] 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.