Salvelinus_taimyricus

<i>Salvelinus taimyricus</i>

Salvelinus taimyricus

Species of fish


Salvelinus taimyricus, commonly known as the taimy char, is a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family. It is found in the Lake Taymyr at the Taymyr Peninsula in arctic Russia.[1]

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Description

The species is purely lacustrine and do not go to the rivers.[2] The fish can reach a recorded maximum length of 49 cm (19.2 inches) and a weight of 1300 g, with an age of 13 years.[3]

The head of the fish is high, while the snout is blunt and the mouth is large. The lower jaw extends beyond the vertical of the posterior edge of the eye.[4] The lips are gray or orange, the back is gray-green, the sides are silvery-gray, and the belly is white. The paired and anal fins are red or gray. There are no or few round light orange spots on the sides. During spawning, the body and fins are brick-red.[5]


References

  1. Pospelova, Elena B.; Pospelov, Igor N.; Zhulidov, Alexander V.; Robarts, Richard D.; Zhulidova, Olga V.; Zhulidov, Daniel A.; Gurtovaya, Tatyana Yu. (October 2004). "Biogeography of the Byrranga Mountains, Taymyr Peninsula, Russian Arctic". Polar Record. 40 (4): 327–344. Bibcode:2004PoRec..40..327P. doi:10.1017/S0032247404003833. S2CID 128836409. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
  2. Zhulidov, Alexander V.; Robarts, Richard D.; Pavlov, Dmitry F.; Kämäri, J.; Gurtovaya, Tatiana Yu.; Meriläinen, J. J.; Pospelov, Igor N. (1 October 2011). "Long-term changes of heavy metal and sulphur concentrations in ecosystems of the Taymyr Peninsula (Russian Federation) North of the Norilsk Industrial Complex". Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 181 (1): 539–553. Bibcode:2011EMnAs.181..539Z. doi:10.1007/s10661-010-1848-y. ISSN 1573-2959. PMID 21264683. S2CID 5658615. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
  3. Phillips, Ruth B.; Pleyte, Kay A.; Ihssen, Peter E. (1989). "Patterns of Chromosomal Nucleolar Organizer Region (NOR) Variation in Fishes of the Genus Salvelinus". Copeia. 1989 (1): 47–53. doi:10.2307/1445604. ISSN 0045-8511. JSTOR 1445604. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
  4. Phillips, R.; Ihssen, P. E. (August 1985). "Chromosome banding in salmonid fish: nucleolar organizer regions in Salmo and Salvelinus". Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology. 27 (4): 433–440. doi:10.1139/g85-064. ISSN 0008-4093. PMID 4027775. Retrieved 13 January 2024.

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