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Salmo gairdneri Richardson, 1836 
AphiaID: 154239

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Salmoniformes (Order) > Salmonidae (Family) > Salmoninae (Subfamily) > Salmo (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792)
Rank Species
Parent Salmo Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Richardson, J. (1836). The Fish. in Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the zoology of the northern parts of British America.: containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions, under the command of Sir John Franklin, R.N. Part 3, pp i-xv + 1-327, Pls. 74-97. [details]

basis of record: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch regenboogforel  [details]
English rainbow trout  [details]
French truite arc-en-ciel  [details]
German Regenbogenforelle  [details]
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Subspecies Salmo gairdneri irideus Gibbons, 1855 accepted as Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792)
Subspecies Salmo gairdneri shasta Jordan, 1894 accepted as Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh
Distribution FAO fishing area 67 [details]
North East Pacific [details]
North Pacific [details]
Host of  Caligus lacustris Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Krøyer, 1837) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Salmincola salmoneus (Linnaeus, 1758) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus clemensi Parker & Margolis, 1964 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus nerkae Roberts, 1963 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Argulus coregoni Thorell, 1865 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaea cyprinacea Linnaeus, 1758 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Salmincola edwardsii (Olsson, 1869) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Salmincola californiensis (Dana, 1852) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Salmincola falculata (Wilson C.B., 1908) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Entomoda tiddi Price & Hames, 1968 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus elongatus Heegaard, 1943 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (335 publications)
To FishBase
To ITIS
Notes  Introduction: This species has been introduced or released in Dutch waters. [details]

Spelling Salmo gairdnerii in ITIS database [details]
Image 
Salmo gairdneri
Salmo gairdneri
added on 2008-12-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154239
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-04-18 08:19:08Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2008-02-28 13:41:07Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Salmo gairdneri Richardson, 1836. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154239 on 2013-05-26
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