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Coregonus confusus

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Coregonus confusus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Genus: Coregonus
Species:
C. confusus
Binomial name
Coregonus confusus
(Fatio, 1885)

Coregonus confusus is a freshwater whitefish from Switzerland. It is also known by its native Swiss German common name, spelled pfärrit, pfarrig, and pfärrig. It was described as Coregonus annectens confusus by Victor Fatio in 1885 from syntypes which have been lost in 1902. The species is rare and only known with certainty from Lake Biel. There is also a possibility that it might occur in Lake Neuchâtel. It vanished from Lake Murten in the 1960s due to eutrophication and water level management.

References

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  • Maurice Kottelat: European Freshwater Fishes. A heuristic checklist of the freshwater fishes of Europe (exclusive of former USSR), with an introduction for non - systematists and comments on nomenclature and conservation; Biologia: Section Zoology vol. 52/5, Slovak Academic Press, Bratislava 1997, ISBN 80-85665-87-5
  • Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. (2008). "Coregonus confusus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. IUCN: e.T135713A4188985. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T135713A4188985.en. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  • Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Coregonus confusus". FishBase. February 2010 version.
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