Gwyniad
| Gwyniad | |
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| Individual caught in 1904 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Salmoniformes |
| Family: | Salmonidae |
| Genus: | Coregonus |
| Species: | C. pennantii
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| Binomial name | |
| Coregonus pennantii Valenciennes, 1848
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The gwyniad (Coregonus pennantii) is a freshwater whitefish native to Bala Lake (Welsh: Llyn Tegid) in northern Wales.
The population is threatened by deteriorating water quality and by the ruffe, a fish introduced to the lake in the 1980s and now eating the eggs and fry of gwyniad. As a conservation measure, eggs of gwyniad were transferred to Llyn Arenig Fawr, a nearby reservoir, between 2003 and 2007.[2][1][3]
The taxonomy of the genus
See also
References
- ^ . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ a b Winfield, Ian J; Fletcher, Janice M; James, J Ben (March 2013). "Llyn Arenig Fawr Gwyniad Survey 2012" (PDF). Countryside Council for Wales. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
- ^ Gwyniad BBC. Wales Nature & Outdoors (read April 2010)
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2009). "Coregonus pennantii" in FishBase. December 2009 version.
- ^ "Conservation". Snowdonia National Park. Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
External links
- Coregonus pennantii. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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