Information about Salmo

See Salmo, British Columbia for the Canadian village of the same name.
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Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

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. (For a list of Pacific salmon species, see the genus Onchorhynchus).

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

Species

References

Village of Salmo
Location of Salmo in British Columbia
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S. salar

Binomial name
Salmo salar
Linnaeus, 1758

Atlantic salmon, known scientifically as Salmo salar
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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

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Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Actinopterygii
Klein, 1885

Subclasses

Chondrostei
Neopterygii
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The Actinopterygii (the plural form of Actinopterygius) comprise the class of the ray-finned fishes.
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Salmoniformes

Family: Salmonidae

Genera

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Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish, the only living family of the order Salmoniformes.
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Salmoniformes

Family: Salmonidae

Genera

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Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish, the only living family of the order Salmoniformes.
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species is one of the basic units of biological classification. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.
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Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné)

Carl von Linné, Alexander Roslin, 1775. Currently owned by and hanging at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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genus (plural: genera) is part of the Latinized name for an organism. It is a name which reflects the classification of the organism by grouping it with other closely similar organisms.
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Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the family are called trout. Salmon live in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as the Great Lakes and other land locked lakes.
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family (Latin: familia, plural familiae) is a rank, or a taxon in that rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Code which applies.
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Salmoniformes

Family: Salmonidae

Genera

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Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish, the only living family of the order Salmoniformes.
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Trout is the common name given to a number of species of freshwater fish belonging to the salmon family, Salmonidae.

All fish called trout are members of the subfamily Salmoninae.
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A type species fixes the name of a genus (or of a taxon in a rank lower than genus).

Strictly speaking, a type species exists only in zoological nomenclature. As set in article 42.
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S. salar

Binomial name
Salmo salar
Linnaeus, 1758

Atlantic salmon, known scientifically as Salmo salar
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Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the family are called trout. Salmon live in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as the Great Lakes and other land locked lakes.
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Oncorhynchus
Suckley, 1861

Species

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Oncorhynchus (Pacific salmon and Pacific trout) is a genus of in the family Salmonidae (salmon).
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genus (plural: genera) is part of the Latinized name for an organism. It is a name which reflects the classification of the organism by grouping it with other closely similar organisms.
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Official status
Official language of: Vatican City
Used for official purposes, but not spoken in everyday speech
Regulated by: Opus Fundatum Latinitas
Roman Catholic Church
Language codes
ISO 639-1: la
ISO 639-2: lat
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S. aphelios

Binomial name
Salmo aphelios
Kottelat, 1997

Salmo aphelios is a species of fish in the Salmonidae family. It is found in Albania and FYROM.
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S. balcanicus

Binomial name
Salmo balcanicus
(Karaman, 1927)

Salmo balcanicus is a species of fish in the Salmonidae family. It is found in Albania and FYROM.
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S. carpio

Binomial name
Salmo carpio
Linnaeus, 1758

Salmo carpio is a fish endemic to Lake Garda, in Italy.
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S. dentex

Binomial name
Salmo dentex
(Heckel, 1852)

Salmo dentex is a species of fish in the Salmonidae family. It is found in Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro.
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Salmo Ferox or Ferox, from the latin for "fierce" is the name given in Victorian times to large brown trout that grow far in excess of the weight of their "ordinary" brethren.

They are "only" brown trout, Salmo Trutta.
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Salmo

Species: S. ischchan

Binomial name
Salmo ischchan
(Kessler, 1877)

The Sevan trout (Salmo ischchan
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Salmo

Species: S. ischchan

Binomial name
Salmo ischchan
(Kessler, 1877)

The Sevan trout (Salmo ischchan
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