Stenodus is a genus of large-sized whitefish in the family Salmonidae. It consists of two species; one of them (beloribitsa) is extinct in the wild. The two species have alternatively been considered subspecies of the single species Stenodus leucichthys.

Stenodus
Nelma (Stenodus nelma)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Subfamily: Coregoninae
Genus: Stenodus
J. Richardson, 1836
Type species
Coregonus leucichthys[citation needed]
Synonyms
  • Luciotrutta Günther, 1866

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Systematics

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The genus Stenodus is distinctive from other whitefishes due to its size and specialized predator morphology; however, evidence of independence from the broader freshwater whitefish genus Coregonus is not clearly evident.[1][2]

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