Thymallus yaluensis
Thymallus yaluensis, also known as Yalu grayling, is a putative species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the genus Thymallus of the family Salmonidae. It is endemic to the upper Yalu River on the China-North Korea border.
Description
Thymallus yaluensis is a small fish, with a maximum recorded length of. It is renowned in Korea for having "the most beautiful form and fins of a freshwater fish".
Some confusion exists regarding the identity of T. yaluensis, as it closely resembles the Arctic grayling in form and has often been treated as a subspecies . However, FishBase recognizes it as an independent species. According to mitochondrial DNA, T. yaluensis is, however, inseparable from the Amur grayling, and was suggested to be a junior synonym of that. Confusingly, it has also been reported from widely separate regions including Siberia, the Alps in Europe, and the northern Mississippi River drainage in North America.