Salvelinus alpinus (Linnaeus 1758)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Salmoniformes
- family
- Salmonidae
- genus
- Salvelinus
- species
- Salvelinus alpinus
description
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).
Name
- Homonyms
- Salvelinus alpinus (Linnaeus 1758)