Coregonus pennantii
The gwyniad (Coregonus pennantii), or Welsh whitefish, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Salmonidae, which includes the salmon, trouts and related fishes. This species is endemic to a single lake in north Wales.
Species
Gwyniad
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderSalmoniformes
- FamilySalmonidae
Habitatfreshwater
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The gwyniad (Coregonus pennantii), or Welsh whitefish, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Salmonidae, which includes the salmon, trouts and related fishes. This species is endemic to a single lake in north Wales.
==Taxonomy== The gwyniad was first formally described in 1848 by the French zoologist Achille Valenciennes in volume 21 of the Histoire naturelle des poissons, cowritten with Georges Cuvier. Valenciennes gave the type locality as Wales. This fish is classified in the Holarctic whitefish genus Coregonus which is classified in the subfamily Coregoninae of the family Salmonidae.