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Gwyniad


Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:salmoniformes
Family:Salmonidae
Genus: Coregonus
Species:lavaretus
Binomial name
Coregonus lavaretus
Linnaeus, 1758

The Gwyniad (Coregonus lavaretus lavaretus) is very rare subspecies of the Common Whitefish L.lavaretus and is fully described by Thomas Pennant in his Zoology ( 1776).

The only United Kingdom population is in Bala Lake, Wales.

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