Fish Guide

Salmonidae
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia   Phylum: Chordata   Class: Actinopterygii   Superorder: Protacanthopterygii   Order: Salmoniformes   Family: Salmonidae
Genera
(see text)

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.