Salmo

See Salmo, British Columbia for the Canadian village of the same name.

Salmo Fossil range: Miocene to Present[1]
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Salmoniformes
Family:	Salmonidae
Subfamily:	Salmoninae
Genus:	Salmo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species
(see text)

Salmo is a genus of fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae) that includes many familiar species of salmon and trout. The type species is the Atlantic salmon, S. salar. (For a list of Pacific salmon species, see the genus Onchorhynchus).

The generic name Salmo derives from the Latin salmō (salmon).

Species

References

1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: p.560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2008-01-08. 

• Species of Salmo. FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. October 2004 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2004.
• Salmo (TSN 161994). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on 12 December 2004.