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Etymology: Salvelinus: Old name for char; it is the same root of german "saibling" = little salmon (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Innokenty Petrovich Tolmachov (1872–1950) was a geographer, geologist and palaeontologist, who led an expedition to Khatanga, Russia, (1905–1906), and an expedition (1909–1910) by sledge along the coast from Kolyma to the Bering Strait. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on author: Berg.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Freshwater; benthopelagic. Temperate
Asia: endemic to Lake Esei in the basin of the Khatanga River, Russia. Possibly present in lakes in the region of the Gydansk Bay.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 37.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 593)
Inhabits lakes (Ref. 26334).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Reshetnikov, Y.S., N.G. Bogutskaya, E.D. Vasil'eva, E.A. Dorofeeva, A.M. Naseka, O.A. Popova, K.A. Savvaitova, V.G. Sideleva and L.I. Sokolov, 1997. An annotated check-list of the freshwater fishes of Russia. J. Ichthyol. 37(9):687-736. (Ref. 26334)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)
Threat to humans
Harmless
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