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Pages in category "Fauna of Lake Baikal" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abyssocottus; B.
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
Lake Baikal was under the Anbei Protectorate of the Tang dynasty from 647 CE to 682 CE. Russian expansion into the Buryat area around Lake Baikal [83] in 1628–1658 was part of the Russian conquest of Siberia. It was done first by following the Angara River upstream from Yeniseysk (founded 1619) and later by moving south from the Lena River ...
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]
Lubomirskiidae is a family of freshwater sponges from Lake Baikal in Russia. [1] Lubomirskia baikalensis, Baikalospongia bacillifera and B. intermedia are unusually large for freshwater sponges and can reach 1 m (3.3 ft) or more. [2] [3] These three are also the most common sponges in Lake Baikal. [2]
Comephorus baikalensis, the big Baikal oilfish, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. This fish is endemic to Lake Baikal in Russia. [ 2 ]
Thymallus baicalensis, also known as the Baikal black grayling, is a Siberian freshwater fish species in the salmon family Salmonidae. Thymallus baicalensis occurs in Lake Baikal , in the inflowing Selenga River and throughout the major Enisei River drainage, and also some eastern tributaries of the Ob River .
It feeds primarily in the rich pelagic zone of Lake Baikal up to 345–450 m. It is a relatively long-lived, iteroparous species that attains reproductive maturity at five to 15 years of age. The omul only enters the rivers that feed Lake Baikal to spawn, like the Selenga , initiating short spawning migrations, usually in mid-October ...