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Salmonidae
Orkney charr
Salvelinus inframundus
- Temperate
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Europe
- Fusiform
- Medium
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
Medium- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Salmons and Trout
- Family
- Salmonidae
- Genus
- Salvelinus
- Maximum length
- 22 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Europe: Orkney Islands (Heldale Water, Hoy Island), Scotland in UK (Loch Meallt, Isle of Skye). Considered extirpated on Orkney Islands since at least 1908, but no recent confirmation. This or a similar species has recently been found in Loch Meallt.
- Conservation status
- EXExtinct
Class
Family
Conservation status
