Salvelinus willughbii
Salvelinus willughbii, also known as the Windermere charr, is a cold-water fish in the family Salmonidae. Its binomial species name commemorates Francis Willughby. Willughby and John Ray had described this fish and its relatives in two Welsh lakes in 1662, recognising these charr as differing from other salmon-like species.[2][3]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Salmoniformes |
| Family: | Salmonidae |
| Genus: | Salvelinus |
| Species: | S. willughbii |
| Binomial name | |
| Salvelinus willughbii (Günther, 1862) | |
References
- IUCN Red list
- Frost, Winifred E; Wells, George Philip (1965). "Breeding habits of Windermere charr, Salvelinus willughbii (Günther), and their bearing on speciation of these fish". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 163: 232–283. doi:10.1098/rspb.1965.0070. PMID 4378483.
- Birkhead, Tim (2018). The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist. London: Bloomsbury. pp. 54, 259. ISBN 978-1-4088-7848-4.
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