Salmo
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- See Salmo, British Columbia for the Canadian village of the same name.
| Salmo Fossil range: Miocene to Present[1] |
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 Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
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Salmo 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. (For a list of Pacific salmon species, see the genus Onchorhynchus).
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 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
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: p.560.
- "Salmo". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. October 2004 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2004.
- Salmo (TSN 161994). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on 12 December 2004.
