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Salmonidae
Amur whitefish
Coregonus ussuriensis
Fish Reaching Sixty Centimeters in Asian Waters
- White
- Temperate
- Estuary
- Lower river
- Local endemic species
- Restricted distribution
- Asia (unspecified)
- Fusiform
- Large
- Temperate fish
White
Temperate
Restricted distribution
Fusiform
LargeAmur whitefish is a freshwater fish from Asia. It inhabits freshwater habitats. The largest recorded length is 60 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Salmons and Trout
- Family
- Salmonidae
- Genus
- Coregonus
- Maximum length
- 60 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Asia: endemic to the Amur basin, occurring in the middle and lower reaches of the Amur, Ussuri River and Lake Khanka, Amur estuary and southern Sea of Okhotsk.
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