Information about Salmonidae

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Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Superorder:Protacanthopterygii
Order:Salmoniformes
Family:Salmonidae
Genera


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Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish, the only living family of the order Salmoniformes. It includes the well-known salmons and trouts; the Atlantic salmons and trouts of genus Salmo give the family and order their names.

Together with the closely-related Esociformes (the pikes and related fishes), the Salmoniformes comprise the superorder Protacanthopterygii. Salmonids are the primary aquacultural interest of Russia. The ability of the Salmonids to live and prosper in Russia depends on two distinct factors. The first factor of which is the high temperatures and the coastal storms in Southern Russia. The other factor is the extreme temperatures and ice of Northern Russia over long periods of time. The ability of these Salmonids to adapt is crucial to Russian fishing culture.

References

S. salar

Binomial name
Salmo salar
Linnaeus, 1758

Atlantic salmon, known scientifically as Salmo salar
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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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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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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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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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order (Latin: ordo, plural ordines) is a rank between class and family (termed a taxon at that rank). The superorder is a rank between class and order. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Code which applies.
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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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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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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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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.
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Esociformes

Families

Esocidae (pikes)
Umbridae (mudminnows)

Esociformes is a small order of ray-finned fish, with two families, the Umbridae (mudminnows) and the Esocidae (pikes). The pikes of genus Esox give the order its name.
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The freshwater whitefish are fish of the subfamily Coregoninae in the family Salmonidae which includes the freshwater and anadromous trout and salmon species.

The subfamily includes the genera Coregonus, Prosopium and Stenodus.
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Coregonus
Linnaeus, 1758

Species
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Coregonus Linnaeus, 1758, is a genus of fish in the salmon family (family Salmonidae). The type species is the common whitefish (C. lavaretus).
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S. leucichthys

Binomial name
Stenodus leucichthys

The inconnu or sheefish (Stenodus leucichthys
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Thymallinae

Genus: Thymallus

Species

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Thymallus
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Thymallinae

Genus: Thymallus

Species

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Thymallus
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Grayling may mean:

Fish:
  • grayling (species), Thymallus thymallus
  • grayling (genus), generically, any fish of genus Thymallus
  • Australian grayling, of the genus Prototroctes and family Retropinnidae
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Hucho
(Günther, 1866)

Species

Hucho bleekeri
Hucho hucho
Hucho ishikawae
Hucho perryi
Hucho taimen

Hucho is a genus of salmonids.
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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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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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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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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.
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Salvelinus

Species

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Salvelinus is a genus of salmonid fish, often called char or charr. Many fish called trout are members of this genus.
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Brook trout


Conservation status
secure

Scientific classification
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S. namaycush

Binomial name
Salvelinus namaycush
(Walbaum, 1792)

Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America.
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Salvethymus

Salvethymus is a genus of fish in the Salmonidae family. It contains the following species:
  • Salvethymus svetovidovi

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