Stechlin whitefish
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The Stechlin vendace ( Coregonus fontanae ), also called Fontane vendace, is an endemic species of fish that only occurs in the Great Stechlinsee in Brandenburg, is ten to twelve centimeters long and four to five years old. The fish mainly lives in cool water at depths below 20 meters and feeds on gill pods and copepods . The Stechlin whitefish received its scientific species name in honor of the writer Theodor Fontane , who described the country and people around the lake in his novel “ Der Stechlin ”.
According to the history of the origin of the Heimatsee, the small fish species must have developed after the last Ice Age , i.e. less than 12,000 years ago. This is a relatively short evolutionary period for speciation . This also took place without geographical isolation as a trigger, because the whitefish ( Coregonus albula ), from which the species has apparently split off, came and still occurs in the same body of water. The Stechlin whitefish only occurs in this one lake and is one of the twelve fish species that occur exclusively or predominantly in Germany.
The species name is not formed according to the international rules for zoological nomenclature , according to which a male namesake would have to have the ending -i.
literature
- Michael Schulz & Jörg Freyhof: Coregonus fontanae, a new spring-spawning cisco from Lake Stechlin, northern Germany (Salmoniformes: Coregonidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 14 (2003): 209-216.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (ed.): Biodiversity - what do we know and understand about biodiversity? Contributions to the workshop “3. Stechlin-Forum “, 2002. ( Memento of the original from January 22nd, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, online)
- ↑ How do I name a species after someone? | International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Accessed February 28, 2018 .
Web links
- Stechlin vendace on Fishbase.org (English)
- Information on the "Fontane vendace" at www.fv-berlin.de
- Coregonus fontanae in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2008. Posted by: Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, 2008. Accessed March 12, 2012th