Gwyniad

Species of fish

Gwyniad
Individual caught in 1904
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Genus: Coregonus
Species:
C. pennantii
Binomial name
Coregonus pennantii
Valenciennes, 1848

The gwyniad (Coregonus pennantii) is a freshwater whitefish native to Bala Lake (Welsh: Llyn Tegid) in northern Wales.

The population is threatened by deteriorating water quality and by the ruffe, a fish introduced to the lake in the 1980s and now eating the eggs and fry of gwyniad. As a conservation measure, eggs of gwyniad were transferred to Llyn Arenig Fawr, a nearby reservoir, between 2003 and 2007.[2][1][3]

The taxonomy of the genus Coregonus is disputed;[4] some authorities assign the gwyniad to the common whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus),[2][5] and a morphological review in 2012 was unable to find any solid evidence for recognizing the gwyniad as a separate species.[6] FishBase and the IUCN list it as a distinct species, C. pennantii.[1][4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Freyhof, J.; Kottelat, M. (2008). "Coregonus pennantii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T135518A4136569. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T135518A4136569.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Winfield, Ian J; Fletcher, Janice M; James, J Ben (March 2013). "Llyn Arenig Fawr Gwyniad Survey 2012" (PDF). Countryside Council for Wales. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  3. ^ Gwyniad BBC. Wales Nature & Outdoors (read April 2010)
  4. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2009). "Coregonus pennantii" in FishBase. December 2009 version.
  5. ^ "Conservation". Snowdonia National Park. Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  6. ^ Etheridge, E.C.; C. E. Adams; C. W. Bean; N. C. Durie; A. R. D. Gowans; C. Harrod; A. A. Lyle; P. S. Maitland; and I. J. Winfield (2012). Are phenotypic traits useful for differentiating among a priori Coregonus taxa? Journal of Fish Biology 80: 387–407. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.03189.x

External links

  • Coregonus pennantii. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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Members of
genus Coregonus
  • Coregonus albellus (autumn brienzlig)
  • C. albula (European cisco or vendace)
  • C. alpenae (longjaw cisco)
  • C. alpinus
  • C. anaulorum
  • C. arenicolus
  • C. artedi (cisco)
  • C. atterensis
  • C. austriacus
  • C. autumnalis (Arctic cisco)
  • C. baerii
  • C. baicalensis
  • C. baunti
  • C. bavaricus
  • C. bezola
  • C. candidus
  • C. chadary
  • C. clupeaformis (lake whitefish)
  • C. clupeoides
  • C. confusus
  • C. danneri
  • C. duplex
  • C. fatioi
  • C. fera (true fera)
  • C. fontanae
  • C. gutturosus (Lake Constance whitefish)
  • C. heglingus
  • C. hiemalis (gravenche)
  • C. hoferi
  • C. holsata
  • C. hoyi (bloater)
  • C. hubbsi (Ives Lake cisco)
  • C. huntsmanni (Atlantic whitefish)
  • C. johannae (deepwater cisco)
  • C. kiletz
  • C. kiyi (kiyi)
  • C. ladogae
  • C. laurettae (Bering cisco)
  • C. lavaretus
  • C. lucinensis
  • C. lutokka
  • C. macrophthalmus
  • C. maraena
  • C. maraenoides (Peipsi whitefish)
  • C. maxillaris
  • C. megalops
  • C. migratorius (omul)
  • C. muksun (muksun)
  • C. nasus (broad whitefish)
  • C. nelsonii (Alaska whitefish)
  • C. nigripinnis (blackfin cisco)
  • C. nilssoni
  • C. nipigon
  • C. nobilis
  • C. oxyrinchus (houting)
  • C. palaea
  • C. pallasii
  • C. peled (peled)
  • C. pennatii (gwyniad)
  • C. pidschian (humpback whitefish or pidschian)
  • C. pollan (pollan)
  • C. pravdinellus
  • C. reighardi (shortnose cisco)
  • C. renke
  • C. restrictus
  • C. sardinella (sardine cisco)
  • C. stigmaticus (schelly)
  • C. subautumnalis
  • C. suidteri
  • C. trybomi
  • C. tugun
  • C. ussuriensis
  • C. vandesius (vendace)
  • C. vessicus
  • C. wartmanni
  • C. widegreni
  • C. zenithicus (shortjaw cisco)
  • C. zuerichensis
  • C. zugensis
Members of
genus Prosopium
  • P. abyssicola (Bear Lake whitefish)
  • P. coulterii (pygmy whitefish)
  • P. cylindraceum (round whitefish)
  • P. spilonotus (Bonneville whitefish)
  • P. williamsoni (mountain whitefish)
Members of
genus Stenodus
  • S. nelma (nelma or inconnu)
  • S. leucichthys (beloribitsa)
Family Salmonidae
Taxon identifiers
Coregonus pennantii


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