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Bernese Whitefish

Coregonus albellus

Classification

Coregonus albellus, the autumn brienzlig or the Bernese whitefish, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Salmonidae, which includes the salmon, trout, whitefish and graylings. This whitefish is endemic to Switzerland. Taxonomy Coregonus albellus was first formally described as Coregonus exigmas albellus in 1890 by the Swiss zoologist Victor Fatio with its type locality given as Lake Thun in Switzerland.

Distribution

Selz OM, Dönz CJ, Vonlanthen P, Seehausen O (2020) A taxonomic revision of the whitefish of lakes Brienz and Thun, Switzerland, with descriptions of four new species (Teleostei, Coregonidae). ZooKeys 989: 79-162. · CC BY 4.0
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Switzerland · 128