Salmo

:"See Salmo, British Columbia for the Canadian village of the same name."Taxobox
name = "Salmo"
fossil_range = Miocene to Present [cite journal
last = Sepkoski
first = Jack
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera
journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology
volume = 364
issue =
pages = p.560
publisher =
location =
date = 2002
url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class
doi =
id =
accessdate = 2008-01-08 ]

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = Atlantic salmon ("Salmo salar")
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Salmoniformes
familia = Salmonidae
subfamilia = Salmoninae
genus = "Salmo"
genus_authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
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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).

pecies

*"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"

References

*FishBase_genus|genus=Salmo|year=2004|month=October
*ITIS|ID=161994|taxon=Salmo|year=2004|date=12 December