Muksun

Muksun
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Salmoniformes
Family:	Salmonidae
Genus:	Coregonus
Species:	C. muksun
Binomial name
Coregonus muksun (Pallas, 1814)

The muksun (Coregonus muksun) is a type of whitefish widespread in the Siberian Arctic waters. It is mostly found in the freshened areas of the Kara and Laptev Seas and up the major rivers, as well as in Lake Taymyr.

Like all whitefishes, it is a silvery, fusiform fish. The average length of mature fish is 33 cm and weight of 1–2 kg, and it can reach a length of 75 cm and a weight of 7–8 kg. Depending on population, the muksun can live up to 16–25 years of age. It is valuable commercially as well as locally as a source of food.^[2]

References

• Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2010). "Coregonus muksun" in FishBase. February 2010 version.

External links

• Media related to Coregonus muksun at Wikimedia Commons

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. huntsmanni (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. oxyrinchus (houting) 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