Salvelinus

Salvelinus Fossil range: Late Miocene - Recent[1]
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; some species are called "trout". Salvelinus is a member of the Salmoninae subfamily of the Salmonidae family. Charr may be identified by light cream pink or red spots over a darker body. Scales tend to be small, with 115-200 along the 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.

Species

• Salvelinus agassizi – Silver trout (extinct)
• Salvelinus albus Glubokovsky, 1977 – White char
• Salvelinus alpinus – Arctic char, "Dolly Varden" (historical use)
  • Salvelinus alpinus erythrinus (Georgi, 1775) – Davatchan
  • Salvelinus alpinus oquassa – Sunapee trout, Blueback char
  • Salvelinus alpinus taranetzi – Dwarf Arctic char, Taranets char
• Salvelinus anaktuvukensis – Angayukaksurak char
• Salvelinus andriashevi Berg, 1948 – Chukot char
• Salvelinus aureolus (Bean 1887)^{[verification needed]} (often included in S. alpinus)
• Salvelinus boganidae Berg, 1926 – Boganida char
• Salvelinus colii (Günther, 1863)^{[verification needed]}
• Salvelinus confluentus (Suckley, 1859)^{[verification needed]} – Bull trout, "Dolly Varden" (historical use)
• Salvelinus curilus (Pallas, 1814)^{[verification needed]}
• Salvelinus czerskii Drjagin, 1932 – Cherskii's char
• Salvelinus drjagini Logashev, 1940 – Dryanin's char
• Salvelinus elgyticus Viktorovsky & Glubokovsky, 1981 – Small-mouth char
• Salvelinus evasus Freyhof & Kottelat, 2005
• Salvelinus fimbriatus Regan, 1908

Brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis

• Salvelinus fontinalis – Brook trout, coaster trout, speckled trout
• Salvelinus gracillimus Regan, 1909
• Salvelinus grayi (Günther, 1862)^{[verification needed]}
• Salvelinus inframundus Regan, 1909
• Salvelinus jacuticus Borisov, 1935 – Yakutian char
• Salvelinus japonicus – Kirikuchi char (sometimes included in S. leucomaenis)
• Salvelinus killinensis (Günther, 1866)^{[verification needed]}
• Salvelinus krogiusae Glubokovsky, Frolov, Efremov, Ribnikova & Katugin, 1993
• Salvelinus kronocius Viktorovsky, 1978

Dolly Varden trout, Salvelinus malma

• Salvelinus kuznetzovi Taranetz, 1933
• Salvelinus leucomaenis (Pallas, 1814) – Whitespotted char
• Salvelinus levanidovi Chereshnev, Skopets & Gudkov, 1989
• Salvelinus lonsdalii Regan, 1909
• Salvelinus mallochi Regan, 1909
• Salvelinus malma – Dolly Varden trout (modern use)
  • Salvelinus malma lordi – Southern Dolly Varden
  • Salvelinus malma miyabei Oshima, 1938 – Miyabe char
• Salvelinus maxillaris Regan, 1909
• Salvelinus murta (Saemundsson, 1909)^{[verification needed]}
• Salvelinus namaycush – Lake trout, Lake char, Touladi, Togue, Grey trout, Siscowet, Paperbelly, "mackinaw", "lean"
• Salvelinus neiva Taranetz, 1933 – Neiva
• Salvelinus neocomensis Freyhof & Kottelat, 2005

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 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 (Friend, 1965)

Hybrids

• Salvelinus alpinus × Salvelinus fontinalis – Alsatian char
• Salvelinus namaycush × Salvelinus fontinalis – Splake, brookinaw
• Salvelinus fontinalis × Salmo trutta – Tiger trout

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

External links

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• USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Fish Database