Grayling

Thymallus thymallus, harjus, the grayling or European grayling, is a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family Salmonidae. It is the only species of the genus Thymallus native to Europe, where it is widespread from the United Kingdom and France to the Ural Mountains in Russia, and Balkans on the south-east, but.

The European grayling is widespread from the United Kingdom and France east to the Ural Mountains in Russia, and south into the Balkans. It favors cold, clean, running river water but also lives in lakes and, rarely, in brackish water around the Baltic Sea.