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The sparctic char is the intrageneric hybrid between Arctic char and brook trout. [30] Sparctic char grows faster than either parent species, are stronger and healthier, and are thus popular for sports fisheries. [ 30 ]
The origin of the name "char" or "charr" is unknown, but was perhaps from Celtic, such as the Irish word ceara meaning "fiery red" (found in some Celtic personal names), likely for the bright red belly of the Arctic char; or perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German schar meaning "flounder, dab"; or from Proto-Germanic *skardaz or *skeraną meaning "to cut or shear", possibly referring to its ...
The Dolly Varden trout (Salvelinus malma) is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America.Despite the name "trout" (which typically refers to freshwater species from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus), it belongs to the genus Salvelinus (chars), which includes 51 recognized species, the most prominent being the brook ...
The Sunapee trout (Salvelinus alpinus oquassa), also called blueback trout, Sunapee Golden trout, or Quebec red trout, is a putative subspecies of Arctic char native to northeastern New England in the United States, as well as Québec and New Brunswick in Canada, with introduced populations in Idaho.
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 ...
The lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) [2] is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, namaycush, lake char (or charr), touladi, togue, laker, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, it can also be variously known as siscowet, paperbelly and lean.
Salvelinus umbla, also known as lake char, is a species of char found in certain lakes of the region of the Alps in Europe. [ 2 ] This char species usually inhabits the deeper waters of the lakes, feeding on crustaceans, insects and benthic fauna.
River Char, a river in Dorset, England; Char (chemistry), the solid material that forms during the initial stage of combustion of a carbonaceous material; Char (fish), a common name for fishes in the genus Salvelinus, including Arctic char; Char , a character in Ninjago; Char Aznable, a fictional character from the Mobile Suit Gundam series