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European Grayling

Thymallus thymallus

Classification

Thymallus thymallus, harjus, the grayling or European grayling, is a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family Salmonidae. It is the only species of the genus Thymallus (the graylings) native to Europe, where it is widespread from the United Kingdom and France to the Ural Mountains in Russia, and Balkans on the south-east, but does not occur in the southern parts of the continent. It was introduced to Morocco in 1948, but it does not appear to have become established there.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 2,595United Kingdom · 922Germany · 781Switzerland · 462Luxembourg · 74Netherlands · 28Italy · 17Belgium · 6