Salmonidae

vendace

Coregonus albula

Carp Reaching Forty Eight Centimeters

• White
• Temperate
• Lower river
• Upper river
• Regional distribution
• Europe
• Fusiform
• Medium
• Temperate fish

Coregonus albula, known as the vendace or as the Least cisco, is a species of freshwater whitefish in the family Salmonidae. It is found in lakes in northern Europe, especially Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Russia and Estonia, and in some lakes of Norway, the United Kingdom, northern Germany, and Poland. It is also found in diluted brackish water in the Gulfs of Finland and Bothnia, both of which are in the Baltic Sea.