Salmonidae

cisco

Coregonus artedi

Fifty Seven Centimeters Trout from the Atlantic Ocean

• White
• Temperate
• Upper river
• Circumpolar Arctic
• Northern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Atlantic Ocean
• North America
• Polar regions
• Elongated
• Large
• Temperate fish

Coregonus artedi, commonly known as the cisco, is a North American species of freshwater whitefish in the family Salmonidae. The number of species and definition of species limits in North American ciscoes is a matter of debate. Accordingly, Coregonus artedi may refer either in a narrow sense to one of the several types of cisco found e.g.