Salmonidae
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Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish, the only family of 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 superorder Protacanthopterygii.
- Family: Salmonidae
- *Subfamily: Coregoninae
- **Coregonus - Whitefishes
- **Prosopium - round whitefishes
- **Stenodus - inconnus
- *Subfamily: Thymallinae
- **Thymallus - Graylings
- *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
- ["Salmonidae"]. FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. October 2004 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2004.
- [Salmonidae (TSN 161931)]. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 12 December 2004.
- ["Salmoniformes"]. FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. October 2004 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2004.
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