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Coregonus gutturosus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Salmonidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Species

Class
  
Actinopterygii

Subfamily
  
Coregoninae

Genus
  
Coregonus

Order
  
Salmonids

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Similar
  
Coregonus, Gravenche, Salvelinus profundus, Coregonus bezola, Longjaw cisco

Coregonus gutturosus, the Lake Constance whitefish, is an extinct species of whitefish in the salmon family Salmonidae. It was formerly found only in deep areas of Lake Constance in the Alps.

Extinction

Coregonus gutturosus was a deep water whitefish that reached a length of 29 cm (11 in). Coregonus gutturosus was highly sensitive to environmental changes and it is thought that the eutrophication of Lake Constance, which peaked in 1979, irreversibly affected the development of the eggs of the species.

Surveys undertaken in the last ten years failed to find any evidence of the survival of the Lake Constance whitefish, as well as of the Lake Constance Deepwater char (Salvelinus profundus), another similarly endemic fish species driven recently to extinction in that lake.

References

Coregonus gutturosus Wikipedia