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Dolly Varden
Salvelinus malma (Walbaum, 1792)
Also calledDolly Varden (fra) · Dolly-Varden-Forelle (deu) · Härkänieriä (fin) · Malmaørred (dan) · Salvelino-do-Pacífico (por) · Trucha Dolly Varden (spa) · malma (pol) · omble du Pacifique (fra) · omble malma (fra) · siven malma (ces) · Камчатский голец (rus) · Мальма (rus) · тихоокеанский голец (rus) · オショロコマ (jpn)
First described in: Walbaum, J. J. 1792. Petri artedi Sueci genera piscium. in quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis. Redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52. Ichthyologiae. A.F. Rose, Grypeswaldiae. No. Pars iii: 1-723, pls. 1-3.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Dolly Varden, Dolly Varden Char, or Pacific Brook Char. To 100 cm (39.4 in) TL or more (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Korean Peninsula and Japan to Chukchi Peninsula, Arctic Alaska, and Mackenzie River, Canada to northern Washington (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). However, Reist in Coad and Reist (2018) notes that, in marine waters, the species might also occur as far eastward as the Coronation Gulf, Nunavut. Migrates between freshwaters of Alaska and Siberia (DeCicco 1992). Anadromous and landlocked, lacustrine populations in Alaska.
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Where it has been recorded
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 4284020.