Stenodus
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Stenodus is a genus of fish species from the order of the salmon-like (Salmoniformes).
Systematics
The genus Stenodus forms within the family salmon fish together with Coregonus and Prosopium the subfamily Coregoninae .
In contrast to Prosopium , the genus Stenodus hardly differs phylogenetically from the broader genus Coregonus , but phenotypically shows more the predator in the morphology .
Species overview
The genus has two types.
- Stenodus leucichthys (distribution area Caspian Sea)
- Stenodus nelma (distribution area Arctic and its tributaries)
Stenodus leucichthys is extinct in the wild and Stenodus nelma is on the Red List of Endangered Species .
Both species are also regarded as subspecies of a single species Stenodus leucichthys under the names Stenodus leucichthys leucichthys and Stenodus leucichthys nelma .
Web links
Commons : Stenodus - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Stenodus on Fishbase.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ L Bernatchez, F Colombani, JJ Dodson: Phylogenetic relationships among the subfamily freshwater whitefish as revealed by mitochondrial DNA restriction analysis . (PDF) In: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing (Ed.): Journal of Fish Biology . 39, 1991, ISSN 0022-1112 , pp. 283-290. doi : 10.1111 / j.1095-8649.1991.tb05091.x .
- ^ Scientific Names where Genus Equals Stenodus. In: www.fishbase.org. Retrieved January 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Stenodus nelma. In: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved January 14, 2019 .