Description

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Body color grayish green on back; sides and belly silvery white; dorsal, adipose and caudal fins slightly tinted with pale yellow and pectoral, pelvic and caudal fins grayish yellow. Upper jaw large and broad; eyes without sebaceous eyelid (Ref. 45563).

Common Names

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Amurhelt , Danish , Denmark

Amur whitefish , English , Russia

Amur whitefish , English , Global

Ussuri cisco , English , China

Ussuri whitefish , English , Russia

Ussuuri siig , Estonian , Estonia

乌苏里白鲑 , Mandarin Chinese , China

烏蘇里白鮭 , Mandarin Chinese , China

乌苏里白鲑 , Mandarin Chinese () , China

Amurskii sig , Russian , Russia

Ussuriyskiy sig , Russian , Russia

амурский сиг , Russian , Russia

сиг уссурийский , Russian , Russia

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Salmoniformes

Family: Salmonidae

Genus: Coregonus

Species: Coregonus ussuriensis Berg, 1906

Climate Zone

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Temperate

Location

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Asia: endemic to the Amur basin, occurring in the middle and lower reaches of the Amur, Ussuri River and Lake Khanka, Amur estuary and southern Sea of Okhotsk.

Biology

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Euryhaline.

Habitat

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freshwater

Conservation Status

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Not Evaluated

Threat to Humans

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Harmless