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Least Cisco

Coregonus albula

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 7,242, February 5,349, March 8,381, April 13,185, May 19,011, June 20,730, July 22,182, August 19,077, September 14,006, October 10,454, November 5,713, December 4,465.
United States149,794
Alaska149,794
Canada26
Yukon11
Finland10
Northwest Territories6
Russia5
Central Finland3
Lapland2
Republic of Karelia2

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • AquaticLives primarily in waterFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumChordates · Chordata
ClassRay-finned Fishes · Actinopterygii
OrderSalmons, pikes and mudminnows · Salmoniformes
FamilySalmons, Trouts, and Whitefishes · Salmonidae
GenusWhitefishes · Coregonus

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