Common whitefish
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| Common Whitefish Conservation status: Data deficient | ||||||||||||||||
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| Coregonus lavaretus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
The common whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) is a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family (family Salmonidae). It is the type species of its genus.
The gwyniad (C. pennantii) is sometimes considered to be a subspecies or population of C. lavaretus. The common whitefish is also sometimes called the lavaret or the powan, although the latter refers more properly to C. clupeoides.