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Coregonidae - soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae

fish family - any of various families of fish

Isospondyli, order Isospondyli - most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon

whitefish - silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere

Coregonus, genus Coregonus - type genus of the Coregonidae: whitefishes

genus Prosopium, Prosopium - whitefishes

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References in periodicals archive

Morphology and life history of the Great Slave Lake Ciscoes (Salmoniformes: Coregonidae).

Evidence for Migratory Spawning Behavior by Morphologically Distinct Cisco (Coregonus artedi) from a Small Inland Lake

I choose not to follow the taxonomy of the Lake Constance coregonidae proposed by Maurice Kottelat and Jorg Freyhof in their Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes (Cornol: Kottelat, 2007) pp.

Order in the lake: Managing the sustainability of the Lake Constance fisheries, 1350-1900

Given the delay in publication, we presume that the order for the fish paintings was partly Evermann's desire to support CBH while in Michigan, and probably for a study Evermann intended to undertake, given his interest in salmonids (at that time whitefishes were considered to belong in the family Coregonidae, separate from, but related to the Salmonidae).

Drawn to the sea: Charles Bradford Hudson (1865-1939), artist, author, army officer, with special notice of his work for the United States Fish Commission and Bureau of Fisheries

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