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Species of fish

Coregonus alpinus

Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Salmoniformes
Family:	Salmonidae
Genus:	Coregonus
Species:	C. alpinus
Binomial name
*Coregonus alpinus* Fatio, 1885

Coregonus alpinus is a species of freshwater whitefish in the family Salmonidae. It is endemic to Lake Thun, in Switzerland's Interlaken region, where it is found in deep water. The maximum length recorded for this species is 25 centimetres (9.8 in). It feeds on chironomids and other bottom-dwelling invertebrates. It is known as the kropfer, a name also applied to the probably extinct species Coregonus restrictus.

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Coregonus alpinus". FishBase. November 2009 version.
Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. (2008). "Coregonus alpinus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. IUCN: e.T135632A4166746. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T135632A4166746.en. Retrieved 11 January 2018.

v t e Freshwater whitefish
Members of genus Coregonus	Coregonus albellus (autumn brienzlig) C. albula (European cisco or vendace) †C. alpenae (longjaw cisco) C. alpinus C. anaulorum C. arenicolus C. artedi (cisco) C. atterensis C. austriacus C. autumnalis (Arctic cisco) C. baerii C. baicalensis C. baunti C. bavaricus C. bezola C. candidus C. chadary C. clupeaformis (lake whitefish) C. clupeoides C. confusus C. danneri C. duplex C. fatioi †C. fera (true fera) C. fontanae †C. gutturosus (Lake Constance whitefish) C. heglingus †C. hiemalis (gravenche) C. hoferi C. holsata C. hoyi (bloater) C. hubbsi (Ives Lake cisco) C. huntsmani (Atlantic whitefish) †C. johannae (deepwater cisco) C. kiletz C. kiyi (kiyi) C. ladogae C. laurettae (Bering cisco) C. lavaretus C. lucinensis C. lutokka C. macrophthalmus C. maraena C. maraenoides (Peipsi whitefish) C. maxillaris C. megalops C. migratorius (omul) C. muksun (muksun) C. nasus (broad whitefish) C. nelsonii (Alaska whitefish) C. nigripinnis (blackfin cisco) C. nilssoni C. nipigon C. nobilis C. palaea C. pallasii C. peled (peled) C. pennatii (gwyniad) C. pidschian (humpback whitefish or pidschian) C. pollan (pollan) C. pravdinellus C. reighardi (shortnose cisco) C. renke †C. restrictus C. sardinella (sardine cisco) C. stigmaticus (schelly) C. subautumnalis C. suidteri C. trybomi C. tugun C. ussuriensis C. vandesius (vendace) C. vessicus C. wartmanni C. widegreni C. zenithicus (shortjaw cisco) C. zuerichensis C. zugensis
Members of genus Prosopium	P. abyssicola (Bear Lake whitefish) P. coulterii (pygmy whitefish) P. cylindraceum (round whitefish) P. spilonotus (Bonneville whitefish) P. williamsoni (mountain whitefish)
Members of genus Stenodus	S. nelma (nelma or inconnu) S. leucichthys (beloribitsa)
Family Salmonidae

Taxon identifiers
Coregonus alpinus	Wikidata: Q1638453 Wikispecies: Coregonus alpinus EoL: 1156767 EUNIS: 15216 Fauna Europaea: 304663 Fauna Europaea (new): 9486bd9a-dd11-4e31-8a9a-84f435be9394 FishBase: 49199 GBIF: 2351200 iNaturalist: 98436 IRMNG: 11119691 ITIS: 623400 IUCN: 135632 NCBI: 861748 Open Tree of Life: 787032 WoRMS: 1467074

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