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Stenodus

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Stenodus
Nelma (Stenodus nelma)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Subfamily: Coregoninae
Genus: Stenodus
J. Richardson, 1836
Type species
Coregonus leucichthys[citation needed]
Synonyms
  • Luciotrutta Günther, 1866

Stenodus is a genus of large-sized whitefish in the family Salmonidae. It consists of two species; one of them (beloribitsa) is extinct in the wild. The two species have alternatively been considered subspecies of the single species Stenodus leucichthys.

Species

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Systematics

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The genus Stenodus is distinctive from other whitefishes due to its size and specialized predator morphology; however, evidence of independence from the broader freshwater whitefish genus Coregonus is not clearly evident.[1] [2]

References

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  1. ^ Bernatchez L, Colombani F, Dodson JJ (1991). "Phylogenetic relationships among the subfamily Coregoninae as revealed by mitochondrial DNA restriction analysis" (PDF). Journal of Fish Biology. 39. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing: 283–290. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.1991.tb05091.x.
  2. ^ Campbell MA, Buser TJ, Alfaro ME, López JA (2020-07-03). "Addressing incomplete lineage sorting and paralogy in the inference of uncertain salmonid phylogenetic relationships". PeerJ. 8: e9389. doi:10.7717/peerj.9389. PMC 7337038. PMID 32685284.

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