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Salmonidae
Salmonidae
Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish, the only living family of the order Salmoniformes. It includes salmon, trout, chars, freshwater whitefishes and graylings. The Atlantic salmon and trout of genus Salmo give the family and order their names.
Together with the closely-related Esociformes (the pikes and related fishes) and Osmeriformes (e.g. smelts), the Salmoniformes comprise the superorder Protacanthopterygii.
The Salmonidae (and Salmoniformes) are divided into three subfamilies and around ten genera:
- Family: Salmonidae
- Subfamily: Coregoninae
- Subfamily: Thymallinae
- Subfamily: Salmoninae
- Brachymystax - lenoks
- Hucho
- Oncorhynchus - Pacific salmon and trout
- Parahucho
- Salmo - Atlantic salmon and trout
- Salvelinus - Char and trout (e.g. Brook trout, Lake trout)
- Salvethymus
References
- Behnke, Robert J. Trout and Salmon of North America, Illustrated by Joseph R. Tomelleri. 1st Chanticleer Press ed. New York: The Free Press, 2002. ISBN 0-7432-2220-2
- Dushkina, L.A. Farming of Salmonids in Russia, Aquaculture & Fisheries Management; Jan1994, Vol. 25 Issue 1, p121-126
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