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Cisco

Coregonus artedi

360 observations in the source records

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) ti-mec, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

28 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

What the records say

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 359, February 368, March 583, April 1,140, May 2,191, June 1,027, July 773, August 699, September 735, October 602, November 376, December 336.
United States11,838
Canada11,077
Ontario9,189
Minnesota4,356
Wisconsin2,892
Michigan2,562
New York965
Alaska840
Nunavut778
Quebec576

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

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Cisco with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.