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Christa Rohrbach, license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, source: iNaturalist
Superclass:
Osteichthyes
Class:
Teleostei
Order:
Salmoniformes
Family:
Salmonidae
Subfamily:
Salmoninae
Genus:
Salvelinus
Species:
alpinus
Common:
Arctic char
Climates:
Tropical
Temperate
Subtropical
Polar
Boreal
Waters:
Freshwater
Brackish water
Marine
Map of Known Habitats
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Regions:
Arctic Ocean
Atlantic, Northeast
Atlantic, Northwest
Pacific, Northeast
Antarctica - Inland Waters
Asia - Inland Waters
Europe - Inland Waters
North America - Inland Waters
Description
Sound Name: FRT
Citable References
Bolgan et al. (2018)
Bolgan, M., O'Brien, J., Rountree, R. A., Gammell, M. 2016. Does the Arctic Charr Salvelinus alpinus Produce Sounds in a Captive Setting? Journal of Fish Biology, 89(3): 1857-1865.
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Species Identified
Sound Detected
Active
Passive Feeding
Other Passive
Morphophysiological
Auditory
Visual
Dubois, J., Dziedzic, A. 1989. L'Acoustique Passive Appliquée à l'Étude du Comportement des Corégones (Coregonus sp. et C. lavaretus) durant la Reproduction en Milieu Naturel [Underwater Sound Detection Applied to Aquatic Ethology: Some Results on Coregonids and Charr Spawing Sites in Two Subalpine Lakes]. Revue des Sciences de l'Eau, 2(4): 847-858.
Bolgan, M., O'Brien, J., Chorazyczewska, E., Winfield, I. J., McCullough, P., Gammell, M. 2018. The Soundscape of Arctic Charr Spawning Grounds in Lotic and Lentic Environments: Can Passive Acoustic Monitoring Be Used to Detect Spawning Activities? Bioacoustics, 27(1): 57-85.