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Coregonus clupeoides
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The powan (Coregonus clupeoides) is a kind of freshwater whitefish endemic to two lochs in Scotland, Loch Lomond and Loch Eck. It has been successfully introduced in two other sites, Loch Sloy and the Carron Valley Reservoir.
Species
Powan
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderSalmoniformes
- FamilySalmonidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 33
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Salmonidae
- Collections
- NHMUK, UMMZ, FMNH
- Recorded in
- United Kingdom, Scotland, Ireland, Sweden
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Encyclopedic overview
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The powan (Coregonus clupeoides) is a kind of freshwater whitefish endemic to two lochs in Scotland, Loch Lomond and Loch Eck. It has been successfully introduced in two other sites, Loch Sloy and the Carron Valley Reservoir.
Powan populations are relatively healthy, but may have been negatively impacted by the introduced ruffe, which eats powan eggs and fry. As a conservation action, an attempt to establish populations in four additional lochs has been undertaken.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Coregonus clupeoides” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.