Published October 19, 2021
| Version v1
Taxonomic treatment
Open
Salvelinus malma
Description
Salvelinus malma (Walbaum, 1792).
Dolly Varden, Dolly Varden Char, or Pacific Brook Char. To 100 cm (39.4 in) TL or more (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Korean Peninsula and Japan to Chukchi Peninsula, Arctic Alaska, and Mackenzie River, Canada to northern Washington (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). However, Reist in Coad and Reist (2018) notes that, in marine waters, the species might also occur as far eastward as the Coronation Gulf, Nunavut. Migrates between freshwaters of Alaska and Siberia (DeCicco 1992). Anadromous and landlocked, lacustrine populations in Alaska.
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
Files
Files
(915 Bytes)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:b8809aec6f36867cf7fce5ef5b050310
|
915 Bytes | Download |
System files
(6.8 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:5737ef62ec6b5fe847421369c7fa186e
|
6.8 kB | Download |
Linked records
Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Salmonidae
- Genus
- Salvelinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Salmoniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Walbaum
- Species
- malma
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Salvelinus malma (Walbaum, 1792) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Coad, B. W. & Reist, J. D. (Eds.). (2018) Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
- DeCicco, A. L. (1992) Long-distance movements of anadromous Dolly Varden between Alaska and the U. S. S. R. Arctic, 45, 120 - 123.