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Salmonidae
Valaam whitefish
Coregonus widegreni
Fifty Five Centimeters Trout of European Waters
- White
- Temperate
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- East Asia
- Europe
- Fusiform
- Large
- Temperate fish
White
Temperate
Regional distribution
Fusiform
LargeValaam whitefish is known from Europe as a migratory fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Salmons and Trout
- Family
- Salmonidae
- Genus
- Coregonus
- Maximum length
- 55 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Europe: Baltic: Bothnian Gulf, Gotland (missing along Swedish coast southward of Stockholm); southern Baltic: from Germany to Gulf of Finland; several landlocked populations in Sweden (Lakes Vänern, Vättern, Locknesjön, Storvindeln, Storlaisan, Skalka-Parkijaur, Arjeplog) and Russia (Neva drainage, Lakes Ladoga and Onega).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
