Salmo gairdnerii Richardson, 1836

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

SPECIES

Published in

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. <em>J. Bentley, London.</em> Part 3: i-xv + 1-327, Pls. 74-97. [Reference was incorrectly given as 1837; correct date is 1836 (WNE June 12, 2015).].

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Chordata

order

Salmoniformes

family

Salmonidae

genus

Oncorhynchus

species

Oncorhynchus mykiss

Name

Homonyms

Salmo gairdnerii Richardson, 1836

Common names

Regenbogenforelle in German

rainbow trout in English

regenboogforel in Dutch

truite arc-en-ciel in French

ニジマス in Japanese

Bibliographic References

1. Behnke, Robert J., 1992: Native Trout of Western North America. American Fisheries Society Monograph, no. 6. xx + 275.
2. Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025.
3. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
4. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
5. Jordan, David Starr, Barton Warren Evermann, and Howard Walton Clark, 1930: Checklist of the fishes and fishlike vertebrates of North America north of the northern boundary of Venezuela and Colombia. Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the fiscal year 1928. 670.
6. 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. <em>J. Bentley, London.</em> Part 3: i-xv + 1-327, Pls. 74-97. [Reference was incorrectly given as 1837; correct date is 1836 (WNE June 12, 2015).].