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Fish of Lake Baikal (2 C, 41 P) Pages in category "Fauna of Lake Baikal" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Lake Baikal [a] is a rift lake that ... (66 and 98 ft), but the majority mainly live at shallower depths. ... animal-watching (especially Baikal seal), and fishing ...
The Baikal seal (Pusa sibirica), also known as Lake Baikal seal or Baikal nerpa, is a species of earless seal endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. Like the Caspian seal, it is related to the Arctic ringed seal. The Baikal seal is one of the smallest true seals and the only exclusively freshwater pinniped species. [2]
While the Baikal Seal is the only unique species of pinniped to live in a purely freshwater environment for the duration of their lives, various species of typically saltwater seals may occasionally frequent freshwater environments or include isolated populations in near coastal freshwater lakes. A Ladoga seal laying on ice in Lake Ladoga
Comephorus, known as the golomyankas or Baikal oilfish, are a genus comprising two species of peculiar, sculpin fishes endemic to Lake Baikal in Russia. Comephorus is the only genus in the subfamily Comephorinae. Golomyankas are pelagic fishes and the main food source for the Baikal seal.
This entire family is mostly endemic to Russia, where it found in Lake Baikal and surrounding lakes and rivers. Batrachocottus. Batrachocottus baicalensis — Bighead sculpin; Batrachocottus multiradiatus; Batrachocottus nikolskii — Fat sculpin; Batrachocottus talievi; Cottocomephorus. Cottocomephorus alexandrae
The Baikal Nature Reserve is part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (also see List of biosphere reserves in the Russian Federation). The reserve is also a part of the Lake Baikal World Heritage Site. The Kabansky Nature Zakaznik, across 12,100 ha (30,000 acres), was transferred under the jurisdiction of the Baikal Nature Reserve in 1985.
The entire subfamily is endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia. [4] Sculpins of this subfamily mostly live in deep water, below 170 m (560 ft). [2] There are 24 known species in seven genera. [2] [3] These include, for instance, Abyssocottus korotneffi and Cottinella boulengeri which are among the deepest-living freshwater fish. [5]