Salmo salar Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 127186

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Pisces > Actinopterygii > Salmoniformes > Salmonidae > Salmoninae > Salmo

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Typetaxon of		Salmo Linnaeus, 1758
Parent		Salmo Linnaeus, 1758
Sources		original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 page(s): 308 [details] basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Breton bradan  [details] Breton gwennig  [details] Danish laks  [details] Danish skællaks  [details] Dutch Atlantische zalm  [details] Dutch Jacobzalm  [details] Dutch zalm  [details] English Atlantic salmon  [details] English black salmon  [details] English common Atlantic salmon  [details] English grilse  [details] English kelt  [details] English N. Atlantic salmon  [details] English parr  [details] English salmon  [details] English sea salmon  [details] English silver salmon  [details] Faroese laksur  [details] Finnish lohi  [details] French saumon  [details] French saumon Atlantique  [details] French saumon d'Atlantique  [details] French tacon Atlantique  [details] German Atlantischer Lachs  [details] German Atlantischer Salmón  [details] German echter Lachs  [details] German Lachs  [details] German Las  [details] German Salm  [details] German Salmling  [details] Icelandic lax  [details] Irish bradán  [details] Italian salmo  [details] Italian salmone  [details] Italian salmone atlantico  [details] Italian salmone del Reno  [details] Italian salmone kipper  [details] Lithuanian lašiša  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Σολομός Ατλαντικού  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Σολομός του Ατλαντικού  [details] Norwegian laks  [details] Norwegian Bokmål laks  [details] Norwegian Nynorsk laks  [details] Polish losós  [details] Polish Łosoś  [details] Polish Łosoś atlantycki  [details] Polish łosoś szlachetny  [details] Portuguese salmão  [details] Romanian somon de Atlantic  [details] Russian losos  [details] Russian losos'  [details] Russian sëmga  [details] Russian семга  [details] Slovenian Atlantski losos  [details] Spanish salmón  [details] Spanish salmón común  [details] Spanish salmón del Atlántico  [details] Swedish lax  [details] Turkish alabalik atlantik  [details] Turkish Atlantik alabalığı  [details] Ukrainian Лосось  [details] Ukrainian Лосось атлантичний  [details] Welsh eog  [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Baltic sea [details] British Columbia [details] British Isles [details] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] FAO fishing area 67 [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] IJsselmeer [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North East Pacific [details] North Pacific [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oosterschelde [details] Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Schelde estuary [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Ungava Bay [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Westerschelde [details] Wimereux [details] Zeeschelde [details]
Host of		Caligus curtus O. F. Müller, 1785 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Krøyer, 1837) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Salmincola salmoneus (Linnaeus, 1758) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Ergasilus labracis Krøyer, 1863 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus clemensi Parker & Margolis, 1964 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus flexispina Lewis A.G., 1964 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus teres Wilson C.B., 1905 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Haemobaphes disphaerocephalus Grabda, 1976 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lepeophtheirus cuneifer Kabata, 1974 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus salmonis Krøyer, 1837 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lepeophtheirus stroemii (Baird, 1847) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Salmincola edwardsii (Olsson, 1869) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Salmincola corpulentus (Kellicott, 1882) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Salmincola extumescens (Gadd, 1901) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus rogercresseyi Boxshall & Bravo, 2000 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus productus Dana, 1852 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus elongatus Heegaard, 1943 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links		Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (123 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1305 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Cultured Aquatic species fact sheets To FAO Species fact sheets To FishBase To GenBank (1309033 nucleotides; 17619 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS
Images		Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) added on 2006-06-06 - author: Tom Mc Dermott () qualitystatus: not checked Salmo salar Linnaeus, 1758 added on 2008-05-22 - author: VLIZ (Decleer) qualitystatus: not checked Gilson (1921, fig. 22) added on 2008-06-11 - author: Anoniem in Gilson, G. (1921) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: not checked Poll (1947, fig. 095, 096, 097 en 098) added on 2008-08-12 - author: H. Dupond in Poll (1947) (naar Smitt) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: not checked Salmo salar added on 2008-12-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: not checked Salmo salar added on 2008-12-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: not checked Salmo salar added on 2009-11-05 - author: Collection Jean Castaing qualitystatus: not checked Salmo salar added on 2010-02-18 - author: Collection VLIZ qualitystatus: not checked Salmo salar added on 2010-06-10 - author: Collection VLIZ qualitystatus: not checked Salmo salar added on 2010-06-10 - author: Collection VLIZ qualitystatus: not checked Salmo salar - Atlantic salmon added on 2011-02-23 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères () qualitystatus: not checked Salmo salar - female added on 2011-03-03 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Carolyn Harvie () qualitystatus: not checked Salmo salar - male added on 2011-03-03 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Carolyn Harvie () qualitystatus: not checked
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127186
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van der Land, Jacob 2008-01-15 17:27:08Z   changed   Bailly, Nicolas
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		Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Salmo salar Linnaeus, 1758. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127186 on 2013-05-24
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