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SpeciesSalmoniformesSalmonidae
Fish

🐟Arctic char

Salvelinus alpinus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Salvelinus alpinus, l’Omble chevalier ou Omble arctique, est une espèce de poissons de la famille des salmonidés. Il a été initialement décrit en 1758 par Carl von Linné. C'est l’espèce d'eau douce dont la distribution géographique est la plus septentrionale. Elle est souvent la seule espèce de poissons dans les lacs de l'Arctique. Certaines populations d'omble chevalier sont anadromes et constituent une ressource alimentaire importante pour les peuples du Nord. En France, il est communément appelé truite rouge, saumon salvelin, jaunet quand il est petit. Son nom vernaculaire le plus courant reste omble. Les pêcheurs alpins les appellent les gris.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/4th of your weight
Also called
Charr, Arctic charr, Arctic Charr
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
15 kg
Body length
0.4 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
40 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Arctic char

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
15 kgmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Body length
0.4 mrecord 1.07 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
40 yearsrecord 40 years · FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
4.39
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.39 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
15 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Arctic char yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderSalmoniformes
  4. ›familySalmonidae
  5. ›genusSalvelinus
  6. ›speciesSalvelinus alpinus
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderSalmoniformes
  3. familySalmonidae
  4. subfamilySalmoninae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderSalmoniformes
  10. familySalmonidae
  11. subfamilySalmoninae
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In other languages
røye (nb), siven severní (cs), nieriä (fi), golec zwyczajny (pl), Omble chevalier (fr), Арктический голец (ru) … and 20 more languages
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