Dolly Varden trout

Dolly Varden trout
adult in spawning colors
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Salmoniformes
Family:	Salmonidae
Genus:	Salvelinus
Species:	S. malma
Binomial name
Salvelinus malma (Walbaum, 1792)
Synonyms[1]
including current subspecies Salmo malma Walbaum, 1792 Salvelinus alpinus malma (Walbaum, 1792) Salvelinus malma malma (Walbaum, 1792) Salmo spectabilis Girard, 1856 Salvelinus malma spectabilis (Girard, 1856) Salvelinus spectabilis (Girard, 1856) Salmo bairdii Suckley, 1861 Salvelinus bairdii (Suckley, 1861) Salmo parkei Suckley, 1861 Salvelinus parkei (Suckley, 1861) Salmo parkii Suckley, 1861 Salmo lordii Günther, 1866 Fario lordii (Günther, 1866) Salmo tudes (Cope, 1873) Salvelinus malma tudes (Cope, 1873) Salvelinus miyabei (Oshima, 1938) Salvelinus malma miyabei (Oshima, 1938) Salvelinus namaycush (non Walbaum, 1792) Salmo fariopsis (non Kner, 1870) Salvelinus malma krascheninnikova (non Taranetz, 1933)

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, lake and bull trout as well as the Arctic char. Although many populations are semi-anadromous, riverine and lacustrine populations occur throughout its range. It is considered by taxonomists as part of the Salvelinus alpinus (Arctic char) complex, as many populations of bull trout, Dolly Varden trout and Arctic char overlap.