''Salvethymus svetovidovi'', also called the long-finned charr, is a species of salmonid fish. It is

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Elgygytgyn Lake Lake El'gygytgyn (Russian and Chukchi: Эльгыгытгын) is an impact crater lake located in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in northeast Siberia, about southeast of Chaunskaya Bay. The word "Elgygytgyn" means "white lake" in the Chukchi ...

in Chukotka,

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,Kottelat, M. 1996.
''Salvethymus svetovidovi''

2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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small-mouth char ''Salvelinus elgyticus'' is a species of fish in the salmon family, Salmonidae. It is a member of genus ''Salvelinus'', the chars. It is known commonly as the small-mouth char (russian: малоротая палия). It is endemic to Lake El'g ...

''Salvelinus elgyticus''. A third char species in the same lake is ''Salvelinus'' ''boganidae'', the Boganid char.Alexander G. Osinov, Anna L. Senchukova, Nikolai S. Mugue, Sergei D. Pavlov, Igor A. Chereshnev (2015
Speciation and genetic divergence of three species of charr from ancient Lake El'gygytgyn (Chukotka) and their phylogenetic relationships with other representatives of the genus ''Salvelinus''
''Biological Journal of the Linnean Society'' 116, 63–85.

Taxonomy

The long-finned char is a morphologically aberrant type of

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; when scientifically first described in 1990, it was placed as the single species in ''Salvethymus'', a new

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. It is closely related to the true chars in the genus ''

Salvelinus ''Salvelinus'' is a genus of Salmonidae, salmonid fish often called char or charr; some species are called "trout". ''Salvelinus'' is a member of the subfamily Salmoninae within the family Salmonidae. The genus has a northern circumpolar distrib ...

'' and is

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placed within this genus; it is probably a sister lineage to the

Arctic char The Arctic char or Arctic charr (''Salvelinus alpinus'') is a cold-water fish in the family Salmonidae, native to alpine lakes and arctic and subarctic coastal waters. Its distribution is Circumpolar North. It spawns in freshwater and populatio ...

(''Salvelinus alpinus'') complex.

References

Salvethymus Fish of Russia Salmonidae Endemic fauna of Russia Fauna of Siberia Monotypic fish genera Fish described in 1990 {{Salmoniformes-stub