''Coregonus pallasii'' is a putative species of whitefish in the family

Salmonidae Salmonidae (, ) is a family (biology), family of ray-finned fish, the only extant member of the suborder Salmonoidei, consisting of 11 extant genera and over 200 species collectively known as "salmonids" or "salmonoids". The family includes salmo ...

, part of the ''

Coregonus lavaretus ''Coregonus lavaretus'' is a species of freshwater whitefish, in the family Salmonidae. It is the type species of its genus '' Coregonus''. There are widely different concepts about the delimitation of the species ''Coregonus lavaretus'' and abo ...

'' complex (European whitefish). It is a

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fish, indicated to live in large lakes of Sweden, Finland and

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(Russia). A typical size is 42 cm and maximum size 60 cm. In

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, the name ''C. pallasii'' has been used of a whitefish form known as ''aspsik'' in the large lakes of the northern river basins, including lakes Pakijaure, Hornävan, Storlaisan,

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, Vojmsjön and Storlögdan. Currently these populations are no more considered separate from the common whitefish, but as a morphotype within ''

Coregonus maraena ''Coregonus maraena'', referred to in English as the maraene, maraena whitefish, vendace, cisco, lake herring, lake whitefish or the whitefish, is a whitefish of the family Salmonidae that occurs in the Baltic Sea basin – in the sea itself and ...

''. Also in

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, only one species of the ''C. lavaretus'' group is recognized, and ''C. lavaretus f. pallasi'' has been used to denote the zooplankton-feeding

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"northern densely-rakered whitefish".Siika
Kalahavainnot. Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke).

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2287326 pallasii Fish described in 1848