Back بروسوبيوم ARZ Prosopium CEB Prosopium German Προσώπιο Greek Prosopium Spanish سفیدماهیهای گرد FA Pyörösiiat Finnish Prosopium French Prosopium GL ჩიკორთევზა KA
| Prosopium Temporal range:
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| Prosopium cylindraceum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Salmoniformes |
| Family: | Salmonidae |
| Subfamily: | Coregoninae |
| Genus: | Prosopium D. S. Jordan, 1878 |
| Type species | |
| Coregonus cylindraceus Pennant, 1784
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Prosopium is a genus of freshwater whitefishes found in North America and parts of eastern Russia. It contains three fairly widespread species: the round whitefish, the pygmy whitefish, and the mountain whitefish. The remaining species, the Bonneville cisco, the Bonneville whitefish, and the Bear Lake whitefish are endemic to Bear Lake.
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Retrieved 8 January 2008.