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Coregonus hiemalis Jurine, 1825

Gravenche, Lake Geneva white(-)fish, Little fera

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: early 1900's (Chicago Museum); 1950?

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

Distribution

Lake Geneva, France and Switzerland

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

FMNH 3989

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Jurine, Louis. (1825). Histoire abrégée des poissons du lac Léman. Mémoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 3(1): 133-235.

 

Other references:

Fatio, V. (1890). Faune des vertébrés de la Suisse. V. Histoire naturelle des poissons. II. Physostomes (suite et fin), anacanthiens, chondrostéens, cyclostomes. Georg, Genève & Bâle.

Fontaine, B., Bouchet, P., Van Achterberg, K., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Araujo, R., Asche, M., Aspöck, U. Audisio, P., Aukema, B., Bailly, N., Balsamo, M., Bank, R.A., Barnard, P., Belfiore, C., Bogdanowicz, W., Bongers, T., Boxshall, G., Burckhardt, D., Camicas, J.-L., Chylarecki, P., Crucitti, P., Deharveng,L., Dubois, A., Enghoff, H., Faubel, A., Fochetti, R., Gargominy, O., Gibson, D., Gibson, R., Soledad Gómez López, M., Goujet, D., Harvey, M.S., Heller, K.-G., Van Helsdingen, P., Hoch, H., De Jong, H., De Jong, Y., Karsholt, O., Los, W., Lundqvist, L., Magowski, W., Manconi, R., Martens, J. Massard, J.A., Massard-Geimer, G., Mcinnes, S.J., Mendes, L.F., Mey, E., Michelsen, V., Minelli, A., Nielsen, C., Nieto Nafría, J.M., Van Nieukerken, E.J., Noyes, J., Pape, T., Pohl, H., De Prins, W., Ramos, M., Ricci, C., Roselaar, C., Rota, E., Schmidt-Rhaesa, A., Segers, H., Zur Strassen, R., Szeptycki, A., Thibaud, J.-M., Thomas, A., Timm, T., Van Tol, J., Vervoort, W. and Willmann, R. (2007). The European Union’s 2010 target: Putting rare species in focus. Biological Conservation 139(1-2): 167-185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.012

Freyhof, J. and Kottelat, M. (2008a). Coregonus hiemalis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 26 July 2012.

Freyhof, J. and Kottelat, M. (2008b). Coregonus hiemalis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T135671A4175929. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T135671A4175929.en. Accessed on 01 July 2022.

Kottelat, M. and Freyhof, J. (2007). Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes. Publications Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland.

Vardakas, Leonidas, Perdikaris, Costas, Freyhof, Jörg, Zimmerman, Brian, Ford, Matthew, Vlachopoulos, Konstantinos, Koutsikos, Nicholas, Karaouzas, Ioannis, Chamoglou, Maria and Kalogianni, Eleni. (2025). Global Patterns and Drivers of Freshwater Fish Extinctions: Can We Learn From Our Losses? Global Change Biology 31(5): e70244. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70244 [Table S1]

http://www.df6na.de/df6na/Fische/freshwater/coregonus/c_hiemalis.htm

http://fishbase.org/summary/Coregonus-hiemalis.html

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/1727/coregonus-hiemalis-geneva-winter-whitefish

https://www.extinction.photo/species/gravenche-or-lake-geneva-whitefish/

 

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