Coregonus

Genus of isospondylous Salmonidæ, including the Whitefishes, of which C. clupeiformis is the common Whitefish of the Great Lakes. It has a small mouth, nearly toothle , and is strongly developed over the neck. It spawns in Nov. and Dec. on rocky shores in pure clear water, is the finest flavored fish known, and attains a length of a foot. The Cisco is an allied, but smaller, species in Lake Michigan, also known as the Lake Herring, and sometimes as Whitefish. It stays at the bottom in deep water, appearing only at the spawning season. The food consists of minute Crustacea. He became general of the Volscians, and took many Roman towns, but was persuaded to spare Rome by his mother's reproaches and his wife's tears.