Salvelinus neocomensis is an extinct deepwater trout species only known from three specimens fished in Lake Neuchâtel (Neuenburgersee) in 1896, 1902 and 1904.

Extinction

This rare endemic trout lived in the great depths of the lake, below . It only reached about in length. It had fins without white margins and yellowish flanks, which earned it the local name Jaunet. Research undertaken in the 1950s and 2003 failed to find evidence of the survival of this species after the last reported specimen.

Salvelinus neocomensis

References

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Photo of Salvelinus neocomensis

Revue Suisse de Zoologie - Salvelinus evasus

necomensis

Lake Neuchâtel

Cold water fish

Fish extinctions since 1500

Taxa named by Jörg Freyhof

Taxa named by Maurice Kottelat

Fish described in 2005

Salvelinus neocomensis