Salvethymus

Salvethymus
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Salmoniformes
Family:	Salmonidae
Subfamily:	Salmoninae
Genus:	Salvethymus Chereshnev & Skopets, 1990
Species:	S. svetovidovi
Binomial name
Salvethymus svetovidovi Chereshnev & Skopets, 1990

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 two other species, the small-mouth char Salvelinus elgyticus, ^[3] and the Boganid char, Salvelinus boganidae . ^{[4] [3]}

Taxonomy

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. ^{[5] [4]}

References

1. Bogutskaya, N. (2024). "Salvethymus svetovidovi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2024 e.T19878A159752517. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T19878A159752517.en . Retrieved 16 April 2025.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Salvethymus svetovidovi". FishBase . February 2012 version.
3. "The Elgygytgyn Lake, Chukotka". Fly Fishing Russia. Retrieved Dec 12, 2012.
4. 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. doi:10.1111/bij.12559.
5. Brunner, Patrick C.; Marlis R. Douglas; Alexander Osinov; Chris C. Wilson; Louis Bernatchez (2001). "Holarctic phylogeography of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus L.) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences" (PDF). Evolution. 55 (3): 573–586. doi: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2001.tb00790.x . PMID   11327164.