The Amur whitefish (''Coregonus ussuriensis'') is a species of freshwater whitefish. It can withstand significant salinity levels. It reaches a maximum size of , with a maximum weight of . Its life expectancy is 10 to 11 years. The Amur whitefish is usually eaten salted or smoked.

Distribution

Its distribution includes the middle reaches of the Amur, downstream of Blagoveshchensk, all along the lower reaches and including its estuary. It lives as well in the Kukhtuy river, the

Tatar Strait Strait of Tartary or Gulf of Tartary (russian: Татарский пролив; ; ja, 間宮海峡, Mamiya kaikyō, Mamiya Strait; ko, 타타르 해협) is a strait in the Pacific Ocean dividing the Russian island of Sakhalin from mainland Asia ...

and the southern part of the

Sea of Okhotsk The Sea of Okhotsk ( rus, Охо́тское мо́ре, Ohótskoye móre ; ja, オホーツク海, Ohōtsuku-kai) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is located between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands ...

. It also has been recorded in Sakhalin, in the lagoons of the northwestern and northeastern coasts, as well as in the Ainskoe and Sladkoe coastal lakes. It is also found in the

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and Sungari rivers, and in the Ussuri River and Lake Khanka.Viktorovsky, R.M. i R.A. Maximova, ''Chromosomal complex of Coregonus ussuriensis and some aspects of the evolution of karyotypes of Coregonidae''. Tsitologiya (Cytology). 20(8):967-970. Leningrad 1978

References

ussuriensis Fish described in 1906 Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin Freshwater fish of the Arctic Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Salmoniformes-stub

Distribution

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