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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.
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.
Lake Baikal [a] is a rift lake and ... translucent fish typically live in open water at depths of 100–500 m (330–1,640 ft), but occur both shallower and much ...
The park is managed with three other nature reserves, and is a major component of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Lake Baikal". [1] The Angara River, which is the outflow of Lake Baikal west into the Yenisei River basin, runs through the park. The park has very high levels of biodiversity and endemic species. [2]
The forest animals of the park are typical of the southern Siberian forest: bear, wolf, fox, lynx, sable, otter, wolverine, moose, musk deer, squirrel, chipmunk, muskrat, and hare. In the alpine meadows, one of the mammals is the black-capped marmot . 249 species of birds have been recorded in the territory.
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
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]
The Transbaikal terrestrial ecoregion covers the "Lake Baikal" Freshwater Ecoregion (WWF ID:606). This freshwater ecoregion supports a "large lakes" habitat for aquatic life, the primary focus of scientific study being on Lake Baikal itself and fish that spawn in the rivers that feed into it (such as the Barguzin River in the Transbaikal). [8]