Kingdom Animalia Subfamily Coregoninae Phylum Chordata Rank Genus | Family Salmonidae Scientific name Stenodus Higher classification Salmonids Order Salmonids | |
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Lower classifications Nelma, Beloribitsa | ||
Stenodus is a genus of large-sized whitefish in the Salmonidae family. It consists of two species; one of them (beloribitsa) is extinct in wild. The two species have alternatively been considered subspecies of the single species Stenodus leucichthys.
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Systematics
The genus Stenodus is not phylogenetically distinct from the broader freshwater whitefish genus Coregonus, although it is phenotypically characterized by a specialized predator morphology.
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