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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).
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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.