Long-finned char
| Salvethymus svetovidovi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Salmoniformes |
| Family: | Salmonidae |
| Genus: |
Salvethymus Chereshnev & Skopets, 1990 |
| Species: | S. svetovidovi |
| Binomial name | |
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Salvethymus svetovidovi Chereshnev & Skopets, 1990 |
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Salvethymus svetovidovi, also called the long-finned charr, is a species of salmonid fish. It is endemic to Elgygytgyn Lake in Chukotka, Far East of Russia, together with another char species, the small-mouth char Salvelinus elgyticus. A third char species in the same lake is the Boganid char Salvelinus cf. boganidae.
The long-finned char is a morphologically aberrant type of char; when scientifically first described in 1990, it was placed as the single species in Salvethymus, a new monotypic genus. It is closely related to the true chars in the genus Salvelinus and is phylogeneticaclly placed within this genus; it is probably a sister lineage to the Arctic char complex (Salvelinus alpinus).
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