Salvelinus vasiljevae, commonly known as Sakhalinian char, is a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family. It is found in the wider Sakhalin region from Nevelskoy Strait and the Amur river basin.

Salvelinus vasiljevae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Genus: Salvelinus
Species:
S. vasiljevae
Binomial name
Salvelinus vasiljevae
Safronov & Zvezdov, 2005

Description edit

Sakhalinian char can reach a recorded maximum length of 25.0 cm (9.8 inches).[1] The fish is semi-anadromous, migrating up river to spawn in the middle of summer and autumn.[2] The fish are omnivorous, feeding on fish, aerial and aquatic insects and their larvae, amphipods, on insectivorous mammals and mice.[3] The species usually reside in rapid current and sandy or pebbled bottom in holes (up to 1.5-2 meters).[4]

References edit

  1. ^ Osinov, Alexander G.; Volkov, Alexander A.; Mugue, Nikolai S. (2021). "Charrs of the genus Salvelinus (Salmonidae): hybridization, phylogeny and evolution". Hydrobiologia. 848 (3): 705–726. bioRxiv 10.1101/817775. doi:10.1007/s10750-020-04478-6. ISSN 0018-8158.
  2. ^ Pichugin, M. Yu.; Gritsenko, O. F.; Osinov, A. G. (1 June 2008). "On morphological diversity of southern Dolly Varden trout Salvelinus malma krascheninnikovi from water bodies of Sakhalin". Journal of Ichthyology. 48 (5): 367–390. doi:10.1134/S0032945208050020. ISSN 1555-6425. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  3. ^ Nazarkin, Mikhail V.; Carnevale, Giorgio; Bannikov, Alexandre F. (2013). "A New Greenling (teleostei, Cottoidei) from the Miocene of Sakhalin Island, Russia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (4): 794–803. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  4. ^ Martynova, Kateryna V.; Zhang, Qi; Olmi, Massimo; Müller, Patrick; Perkovsky, Evgeny E. (1 February 2020). "Revision of the genus Dryinus Latreille (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin (Myanmar) amber". Cretaceous Research. p. 104217. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104217. Retrieved 9 December 2023.