''Salmo'' is a genus of ray-finned fish from the family Salmonidae. The single ''Salmo'' species naturally found in the Atlantic North America is the Atlantic salmon, whereas the salmon and trout of the Pacific basin belong to another genus, ''

Oncorhynchus ''Oncorhynchus'' is a genus of fish in the family Salmonidae; it contains the Pacific salmon and Pacific trout. The name of the genus is derived from the Greek ὄγκος (ónkos, “lump, bend”) + ῥύγχος (rhúnkhos, “snout”), in r ...

''. The natural distribution of ''Salmo'' also extends to North Africa and to West Asia around the Black Sea basin. The generic name ''Salmo'' derives from the Latin ''salmō'' (salmon). The number of distinct species and

subspecies In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...

in ''Salmo'' is a debated issue. Atlantic salmon and brown trout are widespread species, while most of the other taxa are narrowly distributed forms endemic to single

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Species

The species currently listed in this genus are: * '' Salmo abanticus'' Tortonese, 1954 (Lake Abant trout) * '' Salmo aestivalis'' Fortunatov, 1926 (Lake Sevan summer trout) * '' Salmo akairos'' Delling & Doadrio, 2005 (Lake Ifni trout) * '' Salmo aphelios''

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, 1997 (summer trout) * '' Salmo balcanicus'' ( S. L. Karaman, 1927) (Struga trout) *'' Salmo baliki'' Davut Turan, İsmail Aksu, Münevver Oral, Cüneyt Kaya, Esra Bayçelebi - 2021Turan D, Aksu İ, Oral M, Kaya C, Bayçelebi E (2021) Contribution to the trout of Euphrates River, with description of a new species, and range extension of Salmo munzuricus (Salmoniformes, Salmonidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 97(2): 471-482. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.97.72181 * '' Salmo carpio'' Linnaeus,

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(Lake Garda trout) * ''

Salmo caspius The Caspian trout (''Salmo caspius'') is a disputed species of fish in the family Salmonidae. It is native to Eurasia, where it occurs only in the southern Caspian Sea basin. It reaches 25 cm (9.8 inches) in standard length. While historically co ...

'' Kessler, 1877 (Caspian trout) * ''

Salmo cettii ''Salmo cettii'', or the Mediterranean trout, is a species of trout, a freshwater fish in the family Salmonidae. It lives in the Mediterranean region in Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, and on the Italian mainland in the Magra drainage and further sou ...

'' Rafinesque, 1810 (Mediterranean trout) * ''

Salmo ciscaucasicus ''Salmo ciscaucasicus'', the Caspian salmon, is a salmonid fish endemic to the Caspian Sea and its inflowing rivers.

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, 1967 (Terek trout) * ''

Salmo coruhensis ''Salmo coruhensis'' is a species of trout, a freshwater salmonid fish. It lives in streams flowing into the Black Sea, in Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a l ...

'' Turan, Kottelat & Engin, 2010 (Çoruh river trout) * ''

Salmo danilewskii ''Salmo'' is a genus of ray-finned fish from the family Salmonidae. The single ''Salmo'' species naturally found in the Atlantic North America is the Atlantic salmon, whereas the salmon and trout of the Pacific basin belong to another genus, ...

'' (Gul'elmi, 1888) (Gokcha lake trout) * '' Salmo dentex'' ( Heckel, 1851) (Zubatak trout)

* ''

Salmo euphrataeus ''Salmo'' is a genus of ray-finned fish from the family Salmonidae. The single ''Salmo'' species naturally found in the Atlantic North America is the Atlantic salmon, whereas the salmon and trout of the Pacific basin belong to another genus, ''O ...

'' Turan, Kottelat & Engin, 2014 (Euphrates trout) * ''

Salmo ezenami ''Salmo ezenami'' is a critically endangered freshwater salmonid fish, endemic to Lake Kezenoi-Am (Lake Eizenam) in Northern Caucasus. The only native occurrence, in Lake Kezenoi-Am in Chechnya at the border of Dagestan, is in a cold alpine la ...

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, 1948 (Kezenoi-am trout) * '' Salmo farioides'' S. L. Karaman, 1938 (Balkan brook trout) * ''

Salmo ferox Ferox trout (''Salmo ferox'') is a variety of trout found in oligotrophic lakes/lochs of Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. Ferox trout is a traditional name for large, piscivorous trout, which in Scotland feed largely on Arctic char. It has b ...

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, 1835 (Ferox trout) * ''

Salmo fibreni ''Salmo fibreni'', or the Fibreno trout, is a freshwater salmonid fish, endemic to Lago di Posta Fibreno in central Italy. The size of Lago di Posta Fibreno is only 0.29 km². It is a narrow lake 1.1 km long, 100–300 m wide, situate ...

'' Zerunian &

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, 1990 (Fibreno trout) * '' Salmo gegarkuni'' Kessler, 1877 (Gokcha trout) * '' Salmo ischchan'' Kessler, 1877 (Sevan trout) * '' Salmo kottelati'' Turan, Doğan, Kaya, & Kanyılmaz, 2014 (Alakir trout) * ''

Salmo labecula ''Salmo'' is a genus of ray-finned fish from the family Salmonidae. The single ''Salmo'' species naturally found in the Atlantic North America is the Atlantic salmon, whereas the salmon and trout of the Pacific basin belong to another genus, '' ...

'' Turan, Kottelat & Engin, 2012 * ''

Salmo labrax The Black Sea salmon (''Salmo labrax'') is a fairly small species of salmon, at about long on average and rarely reaching over . It inhabits the northern Black Sea coasts and inflowing rivers. There are anadromous, lacustrine and resident river ...

'' Pallas, 1814 (Black Sea trout) * ''

Salmo letnica Ohrid trout or the Lake Ohrid brown trout
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'' (S. L. Karaman, 1924) (Pestani trout) * '' Salmo lourosensis'' Delling, 2011 (Louros trout) * '' Salmo lumi'' G. D. Poljakov, Filipi, Basho & Hysenaj, 1958 (Lumi trout) * '' Salmo macedonicus'' (S. L. Karaman, 1924) (Macedonian trout) * '' Salmo macrostigma'' ( A. H. A. Duméril, 1858) (Maghreb trout) * '' Salmo marmoratus''

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, 1829 (marble trout) * ''

Salmo montenigrinus ''Salmo'' is a genus of ray-finned fish from the family (biology), family Salmonidae. The single ''Salmo'' species naturally found in the Atlantic North America is the Atlantic salmon, whereas the salmon and trout of the Pacific basin belong to ...

'' (S. L. Karaman, 1933) (Montenegro trout) * '' Salmo multipunctata'' Doadrio, Perea & Yahyaoui, 2015 (Draa trout) Doadrio, I., Perea, S. & Yahyaoui, A. (2015): Two new species of atlantic trout (Actinopterygii, Salmonidae) from Morocco. ''Graellsia, 71 (2): e031.'' * ''

Salmo nigripinnis ''Salmo nigripinnis'', also known as the Sonaghen, is a species of fish within the family Salmoninae. Description ''Salmo nigripinnis'' can range in body colour from light brown to silver, with large black spots. Fins of the species are dark b ...

'' Günther, 1866 (Sonaghen trout) * '' Salmo obtusirostris'' ( Heckel, 1851) ** '' S. o. krkensis'' (S. L. Karaman, 1927) (Krka softmouth trout) ** '' S. o. obtusirostris'' Heckel, 1851 (softmouth trout) ** '' S. o. oxyrhynchus'' (

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, 1882) (Neretva softmouth trout) ** '' S. o. salonitana'' (S. L. Karaman, 1927) (Jadro softmouth trout) ** '' S. o. zetenzis'' ( Hadžišče, 1961) (Zeta softmouth trout) * ''

Salmo ohridanus ''Salmo ohridanus'', also known by the local name as the ''belvica'' in North Macedonia or ''belushka'' in Albania, is a species of freshwater salmonid fish, endemism, endemic to Lake Ohrid in Albania and North Macedonia.Salmo okumusi'' Turan, Kottelat & Engin, 2014 (Western Euphrates trout) * ''

Salmo opimus ''Salmo opimus'' is a salmonid Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish that constitutes the only currently extant family in the order Salmoniformes . It includes salmon (both Atlantic and Pacific species), trout (both ocean-going and landl ...

'' Turan, Kottelat & Engin, 2012 *

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'' Salmo pallaryi'' Pellegrin, 1924 (Sidi Ali trout) * ''

Salmo pelagonicus ''Salmo'' is a genus of ray-finned fish from the family Salmonidae. The single ''Salmo'' species naturally found in the Atlantic North America is the Atlantic salmon, whereas the salmon and trout of the Pacific basin belong to another genus, ''O ...

'' S. L. Karaman, 1938 (Pelagonian trout) * '' Salmo pellegrini'' F. Werner, 1931 (Tensift trout) * '' Salmo peristericus'' S. L. Karaman, 1938 (Prespa trout) * ''

Salmo platycephalus ''Salmo platycephalus'', known as the flathead trout,Tarkan, AN et al. (2008Threatened fishes of the world: ''Salmo platycephalus'' Behnke, 1968 (Salmonidae)''Environ. Biol. Fishes'' 81, 371-372. Ala balik or the Turkish trout, is a type of t ...

'' Behnke, 1968 (flathead trout) * ''

Salmo rhodanensis ''Salmo rhodanensis'', or the Rhône trout, is a salmonid fish, a putative species of trout resident in the Rhône river drainage in France and Switzerland. It was previously considered as belonging to ''Salmo trutta The brown trout (''Salmo t ...

'' Fowler, 1974 (Rhône trout) * ''

Salmo rizeensis ''Salmo'' is a genus of ray-finned fish from the family Salmonidae. The single ''Salmo'' species naturally found in the Atlantic North America is the Atlantic salmon, whereas the salmon and trout of the Pacific basin belong to another genus, '' ...

'' Turan, Kottelat & Engin, 2010 (Rize River trout) * ''

Salmo salar The Atlantic salmon (''Salmo salar'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. It is the third largest of the Salmonidae, behind Siberian taimen and Pacific Chinook salmon, growing up to a meter in length. Atlantic salmon are ...

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(Atlantic salmon) Salmo salar flipped

* '' Salmo schiefermuelleri''

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, 1784 (Austrian Lakes trout) Cuvier-102-truite de mer

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Salmo stomachicus Gillaroo (''Salmo stomachicus''}; historically included in ) is a variety of trout which eats primarily snails and is only proven to inhabit Lough Melvin in Ireland. The name gillaroo is derived from the Irish for "red fellow" (); this is due t ...

'' Günther, 1866 (Gillaroo trout) Les poissons Salmo stomachicus

* ''

Salmo taleri ''Salmo'' is a genus of ray-finned fish from the family (biology), family Salmonidae. The single ''Salmo'' species naturally found in the Atlantic North America is the Atlantic salmon, whereas the salmon and trout of the Pacific basin belong to ...

'' (S. L. Karaman, 1933) (Zeta trout) * ''

Salmo tigridis ''Salmo'' is a genus of ray-finned fish from the family (biology), family Salmonidae. The single ''Salmo'' species naturally found in the Atlantic North America is the Atlantic salmon, whereas the salmon and trout of the Pacific basin belong to ...

'' Turan, Kottelat & Bektaş, 2011 (Upper Tigris trout) * '' Salmo trutta'' Linnaeus,

** '' S. t. aralensis''

, 1908 (Aral trout) ** '' S. t. fario'' Linnaeus,

(brown trout) ** '' S. t. lacustris'' Linnaeus,

(lake trout) ** '' S. t. oxianus'' Kessler, 1874 (Amu-Darya trout) ** '' S. t. trutta'' Linnaeus,

(sea trout) * ''

Salmo viridis ''Salmo'' is a genus of ray-finned fish from the family Salmonidae. The single ''Salmo'' species naturally found in the Atlantic North America is the Atlantic salmon, whereas the salmon and trout of the Pacific basin belong to another genus, ...

'' Doadrio, Perea & Yahyaoui, 2015 (green trout)

References

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