Salvethymus
Monotypic genus of fish
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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,[2][1] together with two other species, the small-mouth char Salvelinus elgyticus,[3] and the Boganid char, Salvelinus boganidae.[4][3]
| Salvethymus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Salmoniformes |
| Family: | Salmonidae |
| Subfamily: | Salmoninae |
| Genus: | Salvethymus Chereshnev & Skopets, 1990 |
| Species: | S. svetovidovi |
| Binomial name | |
| Salvethymus svetovidovi Chereshnev & Skopets, 1990 | |
Taxonomy
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 phylogenetically placed within this genus; it is probably a sister lineage to the Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) complex.[5][4]
