Stenodus
Appearance
Stenodus | |
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Nelma (Stenodus nelma) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Salmoniformes |
Family: | Salmonidae |
Subfamily: | Coregoninae |
Genus: | Stenodus J. Richardson, 1836 |
Type species | |
Coregonus leucichthys[citation needed] Güldenstädt, 1772
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Synonyms | |
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Stenodus is a genus of large-sized whitefish in the family Salmonidae. It consists of two species; one of them (beloribitsa) is extinct in the wild. The two species have alternatively been considered subspecies of the single species Stenodus leucichthys.
Species
[edit]- Stenodus leucichthys — beloribitsa: the Caspian Sea basin
- Stenodus nelma — nelma, sheefish or inconnu: rivers of the Arctic basin.
Systematics
[edit]The genus Stenodus is distinctive from other whitefishes due to its size and specialized predator morphology; however, evidence of independence from the broader freshwater whitefish genus Coregonus is not clearly evident.[1] [2]
References
[edit]- ^ Bernatchez L, Colombani F, Dodson JJ (1991). "Phylogenetic relationships among the subfamily Coregoninae as revealed by mitochondrial DNA restriction analysis" (PDF). Journal of Fish Biology. 39. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing: 283–290. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.1991.tb05091.x.
- ^ Campbell MA, Buser TJ, Alfaro ME, López JA (2020-07-03). "Addressing incomplete lineage sorting and paralogy in the inference of uncertain salmonid phylogenetic relationships". PeerJ. 8: e9389. doi:10.7717/peerj.9389. PMC 7337038. PMID 32685284.
Sources
[edit]- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Stenodus in FishBase. February 2013 version.