NOUN | animal | Coregonidae, family Coregonidae | soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes |
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Meaning | soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae. | |
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Synonym | family Coregonidae | |
Member of | Isospondyli, order Isospondyli | Most primitive teleost fishes |
Members | Coregonus, genus Coregonus | type genus of the Coregonidae |
Prosopium, genus Prosopium | whitefishes | |
whitefish | silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere | |
Broader | fish family | Any of various families of fish |
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