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Þingvallavatn Charr

Salvelinus thingvallensis

Classification

Salvelinus thingvallensis is a cold-water fish in the family Salmonidae and one of the few vertebrate species exclusively endemic to Iceland. Its binomial species name commemorates the Icelandic lake Þingvallavatn which includes the limited range in which the fish is found. Salvelinus thingvallensis was originally described by the Icelandic ichthyologist Bjarni Sæmundsson in 1909.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Iceland · 1