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Salmonidae
round whitefish
Prosopium cylindraceum
Pectoral fins take orange tint during spawning
- White
- Temperate
- Circumpolar Arctic
- Northern Hemisphere
- Transcontinental
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- North America
- Polar regions
- Fusiform
- Large
- Temperate fish
White
Temperate
North America
Fusiform
Largeround whitefish is known around North America as a freshwater fish; It occurs in freshwater habitats, and records give a maximum length of 59 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Salmons and Trout
- Family
- Salmonidae
- Genus
- Prosopium
- Maximum length
- 59 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- North America: Arctic and Pacific drainages from western Hudson Bay in Canada to Alaska and northern British Columbia, Canada; Arctic and Atlantic drainages from Quebec and Ontario in Canada to Connecticut in USA; St. Lawrence-Great Lakes basin in Canada-USA (except Lake Erie). Northern Asia: widely distributed in Siberian rivers (Ref. 26334 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
