Borovikova E.A., Alekseeva Y.I., Schreider M.J., Artamonova V.S., Makhrov A.A. 2013. Morphology and genetics of the ciscoes (Actinopterygii: Salmoniformes: Salmonidae: Coregoninae: Coregonus) from the Solovetsky Archipelago (White Sea) as a key to determination of the taxonomic position of ciscoes in northeastern Europe. Acta Ichthyol. Piscat. 43 (3): 183–194.

摘要

Background. The characteristic feature of the genus Coregonus is the multitude of nominal species of obscure identity. The northeastern Europe is inhabited by, inter alia—the vendace, Coregonus albula (Linnaeus, 1758)—considered the European cisco—and the least cisco, C. sardinella Valenciennes, 1848—often referred to as the Siberian species. There is a large area in where the ranges of both species overlap. Using morphological- as well as genetic tools we attempted to test the working hypothesis that the Coregonus fish (ciscoes) inhabiting the above-mentioned transitional zone represent a single species.