Hucho
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| Hucho | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Salmoniformes |
| Family: | Salmonidae |
| Subfamily: | Salmoninae |
| Genus: | Hucho (Günther, 1866) |
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Hucho bleekeri |
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Hucho is a genus of salmonids.
There are five species in the genus Hucho, and all are native exclusively to Asia with the exception of Hucho hucho, the Huchen trout or the Danube salmon, and Hucho taimen the taimen. Hucho taimen is extinct from Europe and now only lives in Mongolia and Russia. Hucho bleekeri the Sichuan taimen , Hucho ishikawae the Korean taimen and Hucho perryi the Sakhalin taimen or the Sea-run taimen live throughout Asia to Japan.
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