Lake trout

Lake trout
Conservation status
Secure  (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Salmoniformes
Family:	Salmonidae
Genus:	Salvelinus
Subgenus:	Cristovomer Walbaum, 1792
Species:	S. namaycush
Binomial name
Salvelinus namaycush (Walbaum, 1792)[1]

The lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush)^[2] is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, namaycush, lake char (or charr), touladi, togue, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, it can also be variously known as siscowet, paperbelly and lean. The lake trout is prized both as a game fish and as a food fish. Those caught with dark coloration may be called mud hens.^{[3][better source needed]}