Species: Coregonus clupeaformis
Lake Whitefish
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Actinopterygii
Order
Salmoniformes
Family
Salmonidae
Genus
Coregonus
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
grand corégone
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Fishes - Bony Fishes - Salmon and Trouts
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Actinopterygii - Salmoniformes - Salmonidae - Coregonus - ).
Ecology and Life History
Habitat Type Description
Freshwater
Migration
false - false - false
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Food Comments
Adults usually eat bottom-dwelling invertebrates and small fishes; in some regions they eat plankton or terrestrial insects at surface, also fishes and their eggs and fry. Young eat mainly planktonic crustaceans.
Reproduction Comments
Spawns in fall. Eggs hatch in early spring. Sexually mature in 5-7 years in some areas, in 2-4 years in other areas. In e. Canada and northern Maine, dwarf form individuals mature by the age of 1 or 2 years and seldom live beyond their 4th year; individuals of the normal morphotype do not mature until their 4th year and may reach 12 years of age; a difference in spawning time of 3-4 weeks provides a partial barrier to gene flow in sympatric populations (Bernatchez and Dodson 1990).
Length
80
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-09-09
Global Status Last Changed
1996-09-09
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - Range includes Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific basins in most of Canada and Alaska, south to northern New England, Great Lakes region, and central Minnesota; this species has been introduced as a forage and food fish in Montana, Idaho, and Washington (Page and Burr 2011).
Global Range Code
H
Global Range Description
>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)