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Chars
Salvelinus
Salvelinus is a genus of salmonid fish often called char or charr; some species are called "trout". Salvelinus is a member of the Salmoninae subfamily of the Salmonidae family. The genus has a northern circumpolar distribution, and most of its members are typically cold-water fish that primarily inhabit fresh waters. Many species also migrate to the sea, however.
49 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 42 known species
Brook Trout
speciesSalvelinus fontinalis
Lake Trout
speciesSalvelinus namaycush
Bull Trout
speciesSalvelinus confluentus
Dolly Varden
speciesSalvelinus malma
Arctic Char
speciesSalvelinus alpinus
Splake
hybridSalvelinus namaycush × fontinalis
Whitespotted Char
speciesSalvelinus leucomaenis
Asian Dolly Varden
speciesSalvelinus curilus
Brook × Bull Trout
hybridSalvelinus confluentus × fontinalis
Arctic Char × Brook Trout
hybridSalvelinus alpinus × fontinalis
Dryagin's Char
speciesSalvelinus drjagini
Thingvallavatn Char
speciesSalvelinus thingvallensis
Windermere Char
speciesSalvelinus willoughbii
Bull Trout × Dolly Varden
hybridSalvelinus confluentus × malma
Cherskii's Char
speciesSalvelinus czerskii
White Char
speciesSalvelinus albus
Neiva
speciesSalvelinus neiva
Gritsenko Char
speciesSalvelinus gritzenkoi
Taimyr Char
speciesSalvelinus taimyricus
Levanidiv's Char
speciesSalvelinus levanidovi
Orkney Char
speciesSalvelinus inframundus
Lake Neuchâtel Deepwater Char
speciesSalvelinus neocomensis
Ladoga char
speciesSalvelinus lepechini
Sakhalinian Char
speciesSalvelinus vasiljevae
Taranet's Char
speciesSalvelinus taranetzi
Boganid Char
speciesSalvelinus boganidae
Bear Island Char
speciesSalvelinus salvelinoinsularis
Lake Constance Deepwater Char
speciesSalvelinus profundus
Schmidt's Char
speciesSalvelinus schmidti
Struan Char
speciesSalvelinus struanensis
Lake Yessey Char
speciesSalvelinus tolmachoffi
Golden Char
speciesSalvelinus youngeri
Long-finned Charr
speciesSalvelinus svetovidovi
Small-Mouth Char
speciesSalvelinus elgyticus
Faroe Char
speciesSalvelinus faroensis
Yakutian char
speciesSalvelinus jacuticus
Dalneozersky Char
speciesSalvelinus krogiusae
Ushkovsky Char
speciesSalvelinus kuznetzovi
Longhead Char
speciesSalvelinus kronocius
Murta Char
speciesSalvelinus murta
Shetland Char
speciesSalvelinus gracillimus
Haddy Charr
speciesSalvelinus killinensis
Malloch's Char
speciesSalvelinus mallochi
Lonsdale's Char
speciesSalvelinus lonsdalii
Large-mouthed Char
speciesSalvelinus maxillaris
Ammersee Char
speciesSalvelinus evasus
Chukot Char
speciesSalvelinus andriashevi
Torgoch charr
speciesSalvelinus perisii
Silver Trout
speciesSalvelinus agassizii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49597.