Fish of the Thymallus (graylings) genus of the Thymallinae subfamily of the Salmonidae family of the Salmoniformes order of the Protacanthopterygii superorder.
(Grayling. Photo by © Lubomir Hlasek. hlasek.com)
Grayling (Thymallus thymallus) was first described in 1758 by the Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778). It inhabits fast-flowing rivers with a solid rocky sandy bottom and oxygenated water. It’s a schooling species. The recorded maximum length is 60 cm. Specimens up to 30 cm long are more common. The maximum weight is 6.7 kilograms. It feeds on insects, nymphs, worms, crustaceans and small fishes.
(Grayling. Photo by © IFI. bayerische-bodenseeberufsfischer.de)
It inhabits submontane and mountain rivers of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Slovenia, Montenegro and Croatia.
Names of grayling (Thymallus thymallus) in other languages are as follows:
Toni (Albanian), Липан (Lipan) (Bulgarian), Lipan podhorní (Czech), Vlagzalm (Dutch), Ombre commun (French), Europäische Äsche (German), Θύμαλλος (Fimalljos) (Greek), Temolo (Italian), Pénzes pér (Hungarian), Tímalo (Spanish), Lipień pospolity (Polish), Peixe-sombra (Portuguese), Lipan (Romanian), Европейский хариус (Evropejskij harius) (Russian), Lipljen (Serbian, Croatian), Lipan (Slovenian).