Thymallus yaluensis
| Thymallus yaluensis | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Salmoniformes |
| Family: | Salmonidae |
| Subfamily: | Thymallinae |
| Genus: | Thymallus |
| Species: | T. yaluensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Thymallus yaluensis T. Mori, 1928 | |
Thymallus yaluensis is a putative species of freshwater fish in the salmon family Salmonidae. It was described from Korea, but reported from widely separate regions: Korea, Siberia, the Alps in Europe, and the northern Mississippi River drainage in North America.
T. yaluensis is a small fish, the maximum recorded length is 20 cm (8 in).
There is some confusion about the identity of T. yaluensis. It is very similar in form to the Arctic grayling T. arcticus. According to mitochondrial DNA, it is however inseparable from the Amur grayling T. grubii, and was suggested to be a junior synonym of that.
The specific epithet, yaluensis, derives from the name of the Yalu River on the North Korean–Chinese border.
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Thymallus yaluensis" in FishBase. April 2012 version.
- MA Bo, HUO Tang-Bin, JIANG Zuo-Fa (2008) Thymallus arcticus yaluensis is a synonym of T. grubii by mitochondrial control region sequences analysis. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 33 (2)
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