Coregonus maraenoides Polyakov, 1874
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
The Peipsi whitefish (Coregonus maraenoides) is a freshwater whitefish of the family Salmonidae that naturally occurs in Lake Peipus on the border of Estonia and Russia, from where it also ascends to Lake Võrtsjärv to spawn. It has been introduced in Lake Burtnieks (Latvia), Gulf of Riga (Baltic Sea), many lakes of northern Russia, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, Japan, Lake Sevan (Armenia) and Balkash (Kazakhstan). It is a benthopelagic fish up to 60 cm long.
It is part of the European whitefish complex (Coregonus lavaretus sensu lato), and often not distinguished from C. lavaretus.
Wikipedia contributors, Peipsi whitefish; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T19:24:16.009307+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Coregonus maraenoides Polyakov, 1874
- Name authority
- Polyakov, 1874
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Salmoniformes
- Family
- Salmonidae
- Genus
- Coregonus
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: no · Freshwater: yes · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- gigaclassActinopterygii
- superclassActinopteri
- classTeleostei
- orderSalmoniformes
- familySalmonidae Cuvier, 1816
- subfamilyCoregoninae Bonaparte, 1845
- genusCoregonus Linnaeus, 1758
- speciesCoregonus maraenoides Polyakov, 1874
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Coregonus. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Coregonus maxillaris Günther, 1866 | SalmonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coregonus maraena (Bloch, 1779) | SalmonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coregonus ladogae Pravdin, Golubev & Belyaeva, 1938 | SalmonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coregonus megalops Widegren, 1863 | SalmonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coregonus macrophthalmus Nüsslin, 1882 | SalmonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coregonus lucinensis Thienemann, 1933 | SalmonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coregonus johannae (Wagner, 1910) | SalmonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coregonus fontanae Schulz & Freyhof, 2003 | SalmonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coregonus fatioi Kottelat, 1997 | SalmonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| muksunCoregonus muksun (Pallas, 1814) | SalmonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coregonus pravdinellus Dulkeit, 1949 | SalmonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| houtingCoregonus oxyrinchus (Linnaeus, 1758) | SalmonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Coregonus maraenoides Berg, 1916 Berg, 1916 | synonym |
| Coregonus lavaretus maraenoides Polyakov, 1874 Polyakov, 1874 | ambiguous synonym |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- Polyakov, I. S. (1874). On whitefishes. In: Minutes of the meeting of the Zoological Division of November 27, 1873. Trudy St.-Peterburgskogo Obscestva Estestvoispytatelej = Travaux de La Société Des Naturalistes de St. Pétersbourg., v. 5: XXIX–XXXI. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:KV4JH. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.