Houting

Houting
Conservation status
	; Extinct (1940) (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Salmoniformes
Family:	Salmonidae
Genus:	Coregonus
Species:	†C. oxyrhinchus
Binomial name
	†Coregonus oxyrhinchus; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	Coregonus lavaretus oxyrhynchus (Linnaeus, 1758) ; Coregonus lavaretus oxyrinchus (Linnaeus, 1758) ; Coregonus lavaretus oxyrynchus (Linnaeus, 1758) ; Coregonus oxyrhynchus (Linnaeus, 1758) ; Salmo oxyrinchus Linnaeus, 1758 ; Salmo rostratus Shaw, 1804 ; Salmo thymallus latus Bloch, 1782 ; Salmo thymallus var. latus Bloch, 1782 ; Tripteronotus hautin Lacepède, 1803;

The houting (Coregonus oxyrhinchus) is a European species of whitefish in the family Salmonidae that was long thought extinct. It was native to the estuaries and rivers draining to the North Sea. The houting is distinguishable from other Coregonus taxa by having a long, pointed snout, an inferior mouth and a different number of gill rakers. The houting once occurred in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and England. In 2023, DNA analysis found the houting to be genetically indistinguishable from Coregonus lavaretus, and therefore not extinct.

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