Salmo
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- See Salmo, British Columbia for the Canadian village of the same name.
| Salmo Temporal range: Miocene to Present[1] |
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| Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Salmoniformes |
| Family: | Salmonidae |
| Subfamily: | Salmoninae |
| Genus: | Salmo (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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Salmo is a genus of fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae) that includes the familiar species Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and brown trout (Salmo trutta). The natural distribution of the genus is chiefly European. Only the range of the Atlantic salmon extends to northern North America. The salmons and trouts of the Pacific basin belong to another genus, Onchorhynchus.
The generic name Salmo derives from the Latin salmō (salmon).
The number of distinct species and subspecies in Salmo is a debated issue. Atlantic salmon and brown trout are widespread species, but most of the other suggested taxa are narrowly distributed forms endemic to single watersheds.
[edit] Species
The FishBase lists the following species (update of 2011):[2]
- Salmo akairos
- Salmo aphelios
- Salmo balcanicus
- Salmo carpio
- Salmo cettii
- Salmo dentex
- Salmo ezenami
- Salmo farioides
- Salmo ferox
- Salmo fibreni
- Salmo ischchan – Sevan trout
- Salmo labrax – Black Sea salmon
- Salmo letnica – Ohrid trout
- Salmo lumi
- Salmo macedonicus
- Salmo marmoratus
- Salmo nigripinnis
- Salmo obtusirostris – Adriatic trout
- Salmo pallaryi
- Salmo pelagonicus
- Salmo peristericus
- Salmo platycephalus – Flathead trout
- Salmo ohridanus
- Salmo rhodanensis
- Salmo rizeensis
- Salmo salar – Atlantic salmon
- Salmo schiefermuelleri
- Salmo stomachicus – Gillaroo
- Salmo taleri
- Salmo tigridis
- Salmo trutta
- Salmo trutta aralensis – Aral trout
- Salmo trutta fario – Brown trout
- Salmo trutta lacustris – Brown trout
- Salmo trutta macrostigma
- Salmo trutta oxianus – Amu-Darya trout
- Salmo trutta trutta – Sea trout
- Salmo visovacensis
- Salmo zrmanjaensis
[edit] References
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: p.560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
- ^ Valid species of Salmo FishBase (accessed 19 February 2011)
- "Salmo". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=161994. Retrieved 12 December 2004.
