''Coregonus sardinella'', known as the least cisco or the sardine cisco, is a fresh- and brackishwater

salmonid Salmonidae (, ) is a 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 salmon (both Atlantic a ...

fish that inhabits rivers, estuaries and coastal waters of the marginal seas of the Arctic Basin, as well as some large lakes of those areas. In North America it is found from the Murchison River (Nunavut) west through the Bering Strait to the

Bristol Bay Bristol Bay (, ) is the easternmost arm of the Bering Sea, at 57° to 59° North 157° to 162° West in Southwest Alaska. Bristol Bay is 400 km (250 mi) long and 290 km (180 mi) wide at its mouth. A number of rivers flow in ...

(Bering Sea) in Alaska, and in the Russian Arctic from the northern part of the

Bering Sea The Bering Sea ( , ; rus, Бе́рингово мо́ре, r=Béringovo móre, p=ˈbʲerʲɪnɡəvə ˈmorʲe) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean. It forms, along with the Bering Strait, the divide between the two largest landmasse ...

across the Siberian Arctic coast to the

Kara Sea The Kara Sea is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. Ultimately the Kara, Barents and Laptev Seas are all ...

and Kara River and further to the Pechora River drainage on the European side. Sendek DS (2021
Phylogenetic relationships in vendace and least cisco, and their distribution areas in western Eurasia.
''Annales Zoologici Fennici'' 58: 289–306. It has been introduced in some lakes and rivers in

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and

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

. ''Coregonus sardinella'' is closely related to the European cisco or vendace ''

Coregonus albula ''Coregonus albula'', known as the vendace or as the European cisco, is a species of freshwater whitefish in the family Salmonidae. It is found in lakes in northern Europe, especially Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Russia and Estonia, and in ...

'', and also is close to the Siberian peled whitefish ''C. peled''. Most recently, it has been argued to be the same species as the European cisco.''Coregonus sardinella''
Eschmeyer's Catlogue of Fishes Online. accessed 2 July 2022

References

External links

www.sevin.ru * www.ittiofauna.org (with distribution map & photo) Freshwater fish of the Arctic

sardinella ''Sardinella'' is a genus of fish in the family Dorosomatidae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. They are abundant in warmer waters of the tropical and subtropical oceans. Adults are generally coastal, schooling, marine fish but ...

Fish described in 1848 {{Salmoniformes-stub