Coregonus sardinella, known as the least cisco or the sardine cisco, is a fresh- and brackishwater salmonid fish that inhabits rivers, estuaries and coastal waters of the marginal seas of the Arctic Basin, as well as some large lakes of those areas.

Coregonus sardinella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Genus: Coregonus
Species:
C. sardinella
Binomial name
Coregonus sardinella

In North America it is found from the Murchison River (Nunavut) west through the Bering Strait to the Bristol Bay (Bering Sea) in Alaska, and in the Russian Arctic from the northern part of the Bering Sea across the Siberian Arctic coast to the Kara Sea and Kara River and further to the Pechora River drainage on the European side.[2][3] It has been introduced in some lakes and rivers in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.[4]

Coregonus sardinella is closely related to the European cisco or vendace Coregonus albula, and also is close to the Siberian peled whitefish C. peled.[5][3] Most recently, it has been argued to be the same species as the European cisco.[6][7]

References

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  1. ^ Freyhof, J.; Kottelat, M. (2008). "Coregonus sardinella". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T62223A12581797. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T62223A12581797.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Coregonus sardinella". FishBase. August 2021 version.
  3. ^ a b Sendek DS (2021) Phylogenetic relationships in vendace and least cisco, and their distribution areas in western Eurasia. Annales Zoologici Fennici 58: 289–306.
  4. ^ Состояние гидробионтов водоемов особо охраняемых природных территорий республиканского значения северного и центрального Казахстана
  5. ^ Bernatchez L, Colombani F, Dodson JJ (1991) Phylogenetic relationships among the subfamily Coregoninae as revealed by mitochondrial DNA restriction analysis, Journal of Fish Biology 39 (Suppl A):283-290.
  6. ^ Borovikova, E. A., Artamonova, V. S. (2021) Vendace (Coregonus albula) and least cisco (Coregonus sardinella) are a single species: evidence from revised data on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA polymorphism. Hydrobiologia 848: 4241–4262.
  7. ^ Coregonus sardinella Eschmeyer's Catlogue of Fishes Online. accessed 2 July 2022
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