Salmo

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

Salmo
Image:Salmo salar.jpg Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Salmoniformes Family: Salmonidae Subfamily: Salmoninae Genus: Salmo
Species
(see text)

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. (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

• "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.cs:Pstruh

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