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Salvelinus alpinus
Description
* Salvelinus alpinus (Linnaeus, 1758).
Arctic Char. To 96 cm (37.8 in) TL (Page and Burr 1991). Circumpolar; in Alaska, in Arctic, Bering Sea, and western Gulf of Alaska drainages. Anadromous on Chukchi Peninsula, Siberia; but lacustrine, not known to be anadromous, in Alaska. All except maximum length in Mecklenburg et al. (2002).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Salmonidae
- Genus
- Salvelinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Salmoniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- alpinus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Salvelinus alpinus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Page, L. M. & Burr, B. M. (1991) A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.