Discrimination of the Endangered Atlantic Whitefish from Lake Whitefish and Round Whitefish by Use of External Characters

Abstract The scope of phenetic variation exhibited by populations of lake whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis in the Canadian Maritime Provinces is not known, which complicates the task of accurately identifying specimens of the endangered Atlantic whitefish C. huntsmani. We developed criteria for accurate (≥95% correct classification) species discrimination using morphological data acquired from archival and recent coregonid collections from the …