Kamchatka grayling

The Kamchatka grayling[1] (Thymallus mertensii) is a grayling in the salmon family Salmonidae. The fish grows up to 50 cm (20 in). It is found in freshwater habitats of the Russian Far East, including the Kamchatka Peninsula, eastern part of Magadan Oblast and northwards to the southern Chukchi Peninsula.[2][3] [4][5]

Kamchatka grayling
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Genus: Thymallus
Species:
T. mertensii
Binomial name
Thymallus mertensii
Synonyms

Thymallus arcticus mertensi (Valenciennes, 1848)

See also

References
  1. Complete mitochondrial genome of the Kamchatka grayling Thymallus mertensii (Salmoniformes, Salmonidae)
  2. "Thymallus mertensii". www.fishbase.se.
  3. Yury Valentinovich Dyldin. A review of the genus Thymallus
  4. Fedorov, V.V., I.A. Chereshnev, M.V. Nazarkin, A.V. Shestakov and V.V. Volobuev (2003) Catalog of marine and freshwater fishes of the northern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 2003. 204 p.
  5. Skopets, M.B.; Prokopev. N.M. Biological peculiarities of the Arctic grayling subspecies from the north east Asia 1 Kamchatka grayling Thymallus arcticus mertensi Voprosy Ichtiologii 30(4): 564-576 1990
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