Salvethymus

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

It is endemic to Elgygytgyn Lake in Chukotka, Far East of Russia,[2][1] together with another species, the small-mouth char Salvelinus elgyticus.

[4][3] The long-finned char is a morphologically aberrant type of char; when scientifically first described in 1990, it was placed as the single species in Salvethymus, a new monotypic genus.

It is closely related to the true chars in the genus Salvelinus and is phylogenetically placed within this genus; it is probably a sister lineage to the Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) complex.

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