SALMONOID FISHES OF THE GREAT LAKES. 
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Genus COREGONUS (Artedi) Linnaeus. 
Subgenus COREGONUS. 
Coregonus clupeaformis (Mitchill). Labrador Whitefish; Sault Whiiefish ; Lake Superior Whitefish; 
Manitoba Whitefish ; Musquaw River Whitefish; Whiting of Lake Winnepesaukee; Shad of Lake 
Champlain. 
Salmo clupeaformis Mitchill, Amer. Monthly Mag., vol. n, 1818, p. 321, Falls of St. Mary, northern extremity of 
Lake Huron; coll., Col. Samuel Hawkins, who called it “whitefish of the lakes.” 
Coregonus clupeaformis, Jordan & Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. xxxvi, 1909, p. 171, Sault Ste. Marie; 
not Coregonus clupeiformis, Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., pt. 1, p. 466, 1898, which is 
chiefly based on Coregonus albus. 
Salmo otsego a Clinton, Account of the Salmo olsego or the Otsego basse, 1822, p. 1, with plate, Otsego Lake. 
Coregonus labradoricus Richardson, Fauna Bor. -Amer., vol. 111, p. 206, 1836, Musquaw River, Labrador, and of 
many subsequent authors. 
Salmo ( Coregonus ) sapidissimus Agassiz, Lake Superior, p. 344, 1850, Lake Champlain (type), after Zadock 
Thompson ; Lake Superior. 
Coregonus latior Agassiz, Lake Superior, p. 348, 1850, Lake Superior. 
Coregonus neohantoniensis Prescott, Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts, vol. xi, 1851, p. 343; Lake Winnepesaukee, New 
Hampshire. 
? Coregonus richardsonii Gunther, Cat. Fish., vol. vi, p. 185, 1866, Arctic North America; locality unknown. 
This species is the common whitefish of all the Great Lakes, Lake Erie excepted. It is also found 
in many of the smaller lakes tributary to these. The Otsego whitefish ( Salmo otsego Clinton) is appar- 
ently identical with this species, as is also the whiting of Lake Winnepesaukee. 
Fig. 19. — Coregonus clupeaformis (Mitchill). Labrador whitefish. (Drawn from a specimen 21 
inches long, collected at Rainy Lake, Rainier, Minn.) 
This whitefish is generally recognizable by the compressed elliptical form, rather pointed snout, the 
absence of a hump at the nape except in very large examples, and by the presence of a dusky shade on 
the back, forming more or less distinct streaks along the rows of scales. It varies much in size, being 
a This description is accredited by authors to the Medical & Philosophical Register, 1844, vol. 111, p. 188. The correct 
title of this publication is “Annals of Medicine, Natural History, Agriculture and Arts, in four volumes, by J. W. Francis 
& D. Harack, published in 1814”. The description and figure appear in a printed “Account of the Salmo otsego , or the 
Otsego basse in a letter to John W. Francis, M. D., professor of obstetrics and the diseases of women and children in 
the University of New York, by De Witt Clinton, LL. D., governor of the state of New York; published by C. T. Winkle, 
101 Greenwich street, 1822.” 
According to Doctor Evermann, who has examined the copy in the Library of Congress, the printed matter is on pages 
1, 3. 4, 5, and 6. Preceding the title page, p. 1, is a full-page cut of the fish described. Following the words “Otsego 
basse” has been written in lead pencil “ Coregonus clupeiformis” . The cut, although crude, plainly shows Coregonus 
clupeaformis. The form is elliptical, and the back shows the dark streaks along the rows of scales usually characteristic 
of that species. 
