Salmo

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See Salmo, British Columbia for the Canadian village of the same name.

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Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Salmoniformes Family: Salmonidae Subfamily: Salmoninae Genus: Salmo
Species
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Salmo Linnaeus, 1758, is a genus of fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae) that includes many familiar species of salmon and trout. The type species is the Atlantic salmon, S. salar.

The generic name Salmo derives from the Latin salmō (salmon).

[edit] Species

• Salmo aphelios
• Salmo balcanicus
• Salmo carpio
• Salmo cettii
• Salmo dentex
• Salmo ezenami
• Salmo ferox
• Salmo fibreni
• Salmo gairdneri
• Salmo iridia - a.k.a. Oncorhynchus mykiss, rainbow trout
• 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 rhodanensis
• Salmo salar - Atlantic salmon
• Salmo schiefermuelleri
• Salmo stomachicus
• Salmo taleri
• 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

• "Salmo". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. October 2004 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2004.
• Salmo (TSN 161994). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 12 December 2004.