Fish of the Coregonus (whitefishes) genus of the Coregoninae subfamily of the Salmonidae family of the Salmoniformes order of the Protacanthopterygii superorder.
(Peled. Photo by © Andreas Hartl. fishbase.org)
Peled (Coregonus peled) was first described in 1789 by the German naturalist, botanist and malacologist Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748 – 1804). It swims in different layers of water in lakes. Sometimes, it enters pre-mouth areas. The recorded maximum length is 50 cm. The maximum weight is 5 kilograms. It feeds on zooplankton, sediment dwellers, including crustaceans, maggots, algae, sometimes it picks up insects from the surface of the water.
(Peled. Photo © fishretail.ru)
It was released in the water bodies of Croatia, in particular, the Peruća Lake. However, there are no data on successful acclimatization and reproduction in new conditions after stocking.
Names of peled (Coregonus peled) in other languages are as follows:
Sjeverna ozimica (Croatian, Serbian), Síh peleď (Czech), Peledmarene (Dutch), Peledmaräne (German), Peled-maréna (Hungarian), Peluga, Peled (Polish), Сorégono peled (Spanish), Пелядь (Peljadj) (Russian).