Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Author
Love, Milton S.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Author
Bizzarro, Joseph J.
0000-0002-2412-9357
joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov
Author
Cornthwaite, Maria
0000-0002-1528-3272
maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Author
Frable, Benjamin W.
0000-0003-4525-0671
bfrable@ucsd.edu
Author
Maslenikov, Katherine P.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
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Zootaxa
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2021-10-19
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Coregonus pidschian
(Gmelin, 1789)
.
Humpback Whitefish
. To
54 cm
(
31.5 in
) TL. Along Arctic coasts from Siberia,
Russia
, west to Kara Sea, and eastward along Alaska and Canadian coasts to Hudson Bay and New
England
(as
Clupea clupeaformis
of Canadian authors). American biologists have generally referred to anadromous and Alaska-dwelling individuals of this species as “humpback” whitefish,
Coregonus pidschian
. Anadromous fish in northern
Canada
usually have been called “lake” whitefish (
Coregonus clupeaformis
(Mitchill, 1818))
by Canadian researchers. Following
McDermid
et al.
(2007)
, we refer to the individuals residing from the
Alaska
Peninsula to the
U.S.
Chukchi and Beaufort Sea drainages and eastward at least to the lower Mackenzie River as this species. All in
Love
et al.
(2016)
.