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

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

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]