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Within Vinony's link graph, Arctic char is referenced by 432 other articles, and connects out to Salmo trutta, Oncorhynchus and Northern Canada.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NU.
It sits within the topics Animal taxa named by Carl Linnaeus, Commercial fish and Fish described in 1758.
Its subject is documented across 44 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Least ConcernArctic char
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderSalmoniformes
- FamilySalmonidae
Maximum longevity: 40 years Observations: Mortality rate increases with age have been reported for wild populations (Patnaik et al. 1994).
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- taxon name
- Salvelinus alpinus
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- Salvelinus alpinus
- taxon common name
- røye
- short name
- S. alpinus
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Encyclopedic overview
The Arctic char or Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) is a cold-water fish in the family Salmonidae, native to alpine lakes, as well as Arctic and subarctic coastal waters in the Holarctic. It is the world's most northerly freshwater fish. Some populations are anadromous.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arctic char” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.