Thymallus thymallus: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the thymallus thymallus lives – recorded in 12 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Thymallus thymallus
Group	Bony fish
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	12 countries
Continents	Europe
Class	Ray-finned fish
Order	Salmoniformes
Family	Salmonidae

Where does the thymallus thymallus live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the thymallus thymallus in 12 countries and territories across Europe.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the thymallus thymallus endangered?

The thymallus thymallus’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the thymallus thymallus?

The thymallus thymallus (Thymallus thymallus) is a ray-finned fish in the order Salmoniformes and the family Salmonidae, genus Thymallus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the thymallus thymallus

Thymallus thymallus, harjus, the grayling or European grayling, is a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family Salmonidae. It is the only species of the genus Thymallus (the graylings) native to Europe, where it is widespread from the United Kingdom and France to the Ural Mountains in Russia, and Balkans on the south-east, but does not occur in the southern parts of the continent. It was introduced to Morocco in 1948, but it does not appear to have become established there.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Thymallus thymallus (revision 1356522623), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q627960 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).