''Coregonus sardinella'', known as the least cisco or the sardine cisco, is a fresh- and

brackishwater Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater (salt water) and fresh water together, as in estu ...

salmonid Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish that constitutes the only currently extant family in the order Salmoniformes . It includes salmon (both Atlantic and Pacific species), trout (both ocean-going and landlocked), chars, freshwater whitefi ...

fish that inhabits rivers, estuaries and coastal waters of the marginal seas of the Arctic Basin, as well as some large lakes of those areas. In North America it is found from the Murchison River (Nunavut) west through the Bering Strait to the

Bristol Bay Bristol Bay ( esu, Iilgayaq, russian: Залив Бристольский) is the easternmost arm of the Bering Sea, at 57° to 59° North 157° to 162° West in Southwest Alaska. Bristol Bay is 400 km (250 mi) long and 290 km, ...

(Bering Sea) in Alaska, and in the Russian Arctic from the northern part of the

Bering Sea The Bering Sea (, ; rus, Бе́рингово мо́ре, r=Béringovo móre) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean. It forms, along with the Bering Strait, the divide between the two largest landmasses on Earth: Eurasia and The Am ...

across the Siberian Arctic coast to the

Kara Sea The Kara Sea (russian: Ка́рское мо́ре, ''Karskoye more'') is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipel ...

and

Kara River The Kara (russian: Ка́ра) is a river draining to the Arctic Kara Sea in Russia. It flows through the Pai-Khoi Range in the Polar Ural region, and forms parts of the borders between the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Nenets Autonom ...

and further to the

Pechora River ; Komi: Печӧра; Nenets: Санэроˮ яха , name_etymology = The Russian name of the river is a combination of two words in an old local Nenets dialect, "pe" & "chora". Literally it means "forest dweller". , image ...

drainage on the European side. Sendek DS (2021
Phylogenetic relationships in vendace and least cisco, and their distribution areas in western Eurasia.
''Annales Zoologici Fennici'' 58: 289–306. It has been introduced in some lakes and rivers in

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ...

and

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

. ''Coregonus sardinella'' is closely related to the European cisco or vendace ''

Coregonus albula ''Coregonus albula'', known as the vendace or as the European cisco, is a species of freshwater whitefish in the family Salmonidae. It is found in lakes in northern Europe, especially Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Russia and Estonia, and ...

'', and also is close to the Siberian peled whitefish ''C. peled''. Most recently, it has been argued to be the same species as the European cisco.
''Coregonus sardinella''
Eschmeyer's Catlogue of Fishes Online. accessed 2 July 2022

References

External links

www.sevin.ru * ttp://www.ittiofauna.org/webmuseum/pesciossei/salmoniformes/salmonidae/coregoninae/coregonus/coregonus_sardinella/index.htm Il coregone siberiano, ''Coregonus sardinella'' Valenciennes, 1848www.ittiofauna.org (with distribution map & photo) Freshwater fish of the Arctic

sardinella ''Sardinella'' is a genus of fish in the family Clupeidae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. They are abundant in warmer waters of the tropical and subtropical oceans. Adults are generally coastal, schooling, marine fish but juveni ...

Fish described in 1848 {{Salmoniformes-stub