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Arctic grayling, the Glossary

The Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) is a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family Salmonidae.^[1]

71 relations: Alaska, Alaska North Slope, Alberta, Arctic Ocean, Arizona, Beaverhead River, Big Hole River, Boulder Mountains (Idaho), British Columbia, Canada, Carl Linnaeus, Cascade Range, Central Idaho, Columbia River, Crustacean, Distinct population segment, Dorsal fin, Ecozone, Endangered Species Act of 1973, European Russia, Family (biology), Fish fin, Fish migration, Fluvial sediment processes, Fraser River, Freshwater fish, Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, Iñupiat, Insect, Iridescence, IUCN Red List, Lake, Larva, Lee Valley Lake, Michigan, Milt, Missouri River, Montana, Montana Arctic grayling, Nearctic realm, Ob (river), Pacific Ocean, Palearctic realm, Pechora (river), Peter Simon Pallas, Piscivore, Recreational fishing, Red Rock River (Montana), Rocky Mountains, ... Expand index (21 more) »
Fish described in 1776
Freshwater fish of the Arctic
Thymallus

Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

The Alaska North Slope is the region of the U.S. state of Alaska located on the northern slope of the Brooks Range along the coast of two marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean, the Chukchi Sea being on the western side of Point Barrow, and the Beaufort Sea on the eastern.

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Alberta

Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Beaverhead River

The Beaverhead River is an approximately tributary of the Jefferson River in southwest Montana (east of the Continental Divide).

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Big Hole River

The Big Hole River is a tributary of the Jefferson River, approximately 153 miles (246 km) long, in Beaverhead County, in southwestern Montana, United States.

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Boulder Mountains (Idaho)

The Boulder Mountains are part of the Rocky Mountains in the western United States.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Cascade Range

The Cascade Range or Cascades is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California.

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Central Idaho

Central Idaho is a geographical term for the region located northeast of Boise and southeast of Lewiston in the U.S. state of Idaho.

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Columbia River

The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: or; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

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Crustacean

Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.

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Distinct population segment

A distinct population segment (DPS) is the smallest division of a taxonomic species permitted to be protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

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Dorsal fin

A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates within various taxa of the animal kingdom.

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Ecozone

An ecozone may refer to.

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Endangered Species Act of 1973

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving imperiled species.

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European Russia

European Russia is the western and most populated part of the Russian Federation.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Fish fin

Fins are moving appendages protruding from the body of fish that interact with water to generate thrust and help the fish swim.

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Fish migration

Fish migration is mass relocation by fish from one area or body of water to another.

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Fluvial sediment processes

In geography and geology, fluvial sediment processes or fluvial sediment transport are associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by sediments.

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Fraser River

The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for, into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of Vancouver.

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Freshwater fish

Freshwater fish are fish species that spend some or all of their lives in bodies of fresh water such as rivers, lakes and inland wetlands, where the salinity is less than 1.05%.

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Great Lakes

The Great Lakes (Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.

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Hudson Bay

Hudson Bay, sometimes called Hudson's Bay (usually historically), is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of.

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Iñupiat

The Inupiat (singular: Iñupiaq) are a group of Alaska Natives whose traditional territory roughly spans northeast from Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the northernmost part of the Canada–United States border.

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Insect

Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.

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Iridescence

Iridescence (also known as goniochromism) is the phenomenon of certain surfaces that appear gradually to change colour as the angle of view or the angle of illumination changes.

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IUCN Red List

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species.

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Lake

A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.

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Larva

A larva (larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage.

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Lee Valley Lake

Lee Valley Lake is Arizona's highest elevation reservoir, situated at in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests near Mount Baldy.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

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Milt

Milt is the seminal fluid of fish, mollusks, and certain other water-dwelling animals which reproduce by spraying this fluid, which contains the sperm, onto roe (fish eggs).

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Missouri River

The Missouri River is a river in the Central and Mountain West regions of the United States.

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Montana

Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Montana Arctic grayling

The Montana Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus montanus) is a North American freshwater fish in the salmon family Salmonidae. Arctic grayling and montana Arctic grayling are thymallus.

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Nearctic realm

The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.

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Ob (river)

The Ob is a major river in Russia.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Palearctic realm

The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth.

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Pechora (river)

The Pechora (Печо́ра; Komi: Печӧра; Nenets: Санэроˮ яха) is the sixth-longest river in Europe.

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Peter Simon Pallas

Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural historian, and taxonomist.

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Piscivore

A piscivore is a carnivorous animal that primarily eats fish.

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Recreational fishing

Recreational fishing, also called sport fishing or game fishing, is fishing for leisure, exercise or competition.

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Red Rock River (Montana)

The Red Rock River is a roughly river in southwestern Montana in the United States.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America.

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Roe

Roe, or hard roe, is the fully ripe internal egg masses in the ovaries, or the released external egg masses, of fish and certain marine animals such as shrimp, scallop, sea urchins and squid.

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Ruby River

The Ruby River is a tributary of the Beaverhead River, approximately 76 mi (122 km) long, in southwestern Montana in the United States.

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Salmon

Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.

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Salmonidae

Salmonidae (lit. "salmon-like") is a family of ray-finned fish that constitutes the only currently extant family in the order Salmoniformes (lit. "salmon-shaped"), consisting of 11 extant genera and over 200 species collectively known as "salmonids" or "salmonoids".

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Seafood

Seafood is the culinary name for food that comes from any form of sea life, prominently including fish and shellfish.

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Shoaling and schooling

In biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling, and if the group is swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner, they are schooling.

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Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

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Sierra Nevada

The Sierra Nevada is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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Teton Range

The Teton Range is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in North America.

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Thymallus

Thymallus or graylings is a genus of freshwater salmonid ray-finned fish (family Salmonidae) and the only genus within the subfamily Thymallinae.

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Thymallus thymallus

Thymallus thymallus, the grayling or European grayling, is a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family Salmonidae. Arctic grayling and thymallus thymallus are thymallus.

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Thyme

Thyme is a culinary herb consisting of the dried aerial parts of some members of the genus Thymus of flowering plants in the mint family Lamiaceae.

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Uinta Mountains

The Uinta Mountains are an east-west trending chain of mountains in northeastern Utah extending a short distance into northwest Colorado and slightly into southwestern Wyoming in the United States.

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United States Fish and Wildlife Service

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS or FWS) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior which oversees the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats in the United States.

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White Mountains (Arizona)

The White Mountains of Arizona are a mountain range and mountainous region in the eastern part of the state, near the border with New Mexico; they are a continuation from the west of the Arizona transition zone–Mogollon Rim, with the Rim ending in western New Mexico.

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Yenisey

The Yenisey (Енисе́й) is the fifth-longest river system in the world, and the largest to drain into the Arctic Ocean.

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Zooplankton

Zooplankton are the animal (or heterotrophic) component of the planktonic community (the "zoo-" prefix comes from), having to consume other organisms to thrive.

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Zygote

A zygote is a eukaryotic cell formed by a fertilization event between two gametes.

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10th edition of Systema Naturae

The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_grayling

Also known as Alaska Grayling, Arctic greyling, Thymallus arcticus, Thymallus arcticus arcticus, Thymallus montanus, Thymallus signifer, Thymallus tricolor.

, Roe, Ruby River, Salmon, Salmonidae, Seafood, Shoaling and schooling, Siberia, Sierra Nevada, Species, Subspecies, Teton Range, Thymallus, Thymallus thymallus, Thyme, Uinta Mountains, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, White Mountains (Arizona), Yenisey, Zooplankton, Zygote, 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

Arctic grayling, the Glossary

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See also

Fish described in 1776

Freshwater fish of the Arctic

Thymallus

References