Salvelinus

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Salvelinus
Fossil range: Late Miocene - Recent[1]
Arctic char, Salvelinus alpinus alpinus
Arctic char, Salvelinus alpinus alpinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Superclass: Osteichthyes
Class: Actinopterygii
Subclass: Neopterygii
Infraclass: Teleostei
Superorder: Protacanthopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Genus: Salvelinus
Species

About 50, see text

Salvelinus is a genus of salmonid fish, often called char or charr; many of the fish called "trouts" also belong here. Charr may be identified by light cream pink or red spots over a darker body. Scales tend to be small, with 115-200 along lateral line. Pectoral, pelvic, anal, and lower aspect of caudal fin are trimmed in snow white or cream leading edges.

Many members of this genus are popular sports fish, and a few such as the lake trout (S. namaycush), are the object of commercial fisheries and aquaculture. Occasionally such fish escape and become invasive species.

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[edit] Species

Brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis
Brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis
Dolly Varden trout, Salvelinus malma
Dolly Varden trout, Salvelinus malma
Lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush
Lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush
  • Salvelinus obtusus Regan, 1908
  • Salvelinus perisii (Günther, 1865)[verification needed]
  • Salvelinus profundus (Schillinger, 1901)[verification needed]
  • Salvelinus scharffi Regan, 1908
  • Salvelinus schmidti Viktorovsky, 1978
  • Salvelinus struanensis (Maitland, 1881)[verification needed]
  • Salvelinus taimyricus Mikhin, 1949
  • Salvelinus taranetzi Kaganowsky, 1955
  • Salvelinus thingvallensis (Saemundsson, 1909)[verification needed]
  • Salvelinus tolmachoffi Berg, 1926 – Esei lake char
  • Salvelinus trevelyani Regan, 1908
  • Salvelinus umbla (Linnaeus, 1758)[verification needed]
  • Salvelinus vasiljevae Safronov & Zvezdov, 2005 – Sakhalinian char
  • Salvelinus willoughbii (Günther, 1862)[verification needed]
  • Salvelinus youngeri (riend, 1965

[edit] Hybrids

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sepkoski (2002)
  • FishBase (2006): Salvelinus species. Version of 2006-MAR-14. Retrieved 2008-FEB-01.
  • Sepkoski, Jack (2002): Osteichthyes. In: A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletin of American Paleontology 364: 560. HTML fulltext

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