Sakhalin Taimen
Parahucho perryi
- Critically endangered
- Card rarity: Legendary
- Fish
The Sakhalin taimen, also known as the Japanese huchen or stringfish, is a large species of salmonid freshwater fish in Northeast Asia, found in the lakes and large rivers of Primorsky, Khabarovsk, Sakhalin and Kuril Islands of Far Eastern Russia, as well as Hokkaido of Japan. Although often placed in the genus Hucho, molecular phylogenetic and other evidence has shown that it belongs in its own monotypic genus Parahucho.
Classification
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Salmoniformes
- Family
- Salmonidae
- Genus
- Parahucho