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Salmonidae
Arctic grayling
Thymallus arcticus
Male fin reach adipose
- Gray
- Temperate
- Upper river
- Circumpolar Arctic
- Northern Hemisphere
- Transcontinental
- Freshwater fish
- Arctic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Europe
- North America
- Polar regions
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
- Temperate fish
Gray
Temperate
Europe
Fusiform
LargeArctic grayling is a freshwater fish of North America. The species occupies freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 76 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Salmons and Trout
- Family
- Salmonidae
- Genus
- Thymallus
- Maximum length
- 76 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- North America: widespread in Arctic drainages from Hudson Bay, Canada to Alaska and in Arctic and Pacific drainages to central Alberta and British Columbia in Canada; upper Missouri River drainage in Montana, USA. Formerly in Great Lakes basin in Michigan, USA (Ref. 5723 ). Arctic Ocean basin in Siberia from Ob to Yenisei drainages and in Europe in some tributaries of Pechora (Usa, Kosyu, Kozhim), Korotaikha and Kara (Ref. 59043 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
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