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Salmo salar Linnaeus, 1758

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em>

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Salmoniformes
family
Salmonidae
genus
Salmo
species
Salmo salar

Name

Synonyms
Salmo brevipes Smitt, 1883
Salmo caerulescens Schmidt, 1795
Salmo gloverii Girard, 1854
Salmo goedenii Bloch, 1784
Salmo gracilis Couch, 1865
Salmo hamatus Cuvier, 1829
Salmo hardinii Günther, 1866
Salmo nobilis Olafsen, 1772
Salmo nobilis Pallas, 1814
Salmo ocla Nilsson, 1832
Salmo renatus Lacepède, 1803
Salmo rilla Lacepède, 1803
Salmo salar biennis Berg, 1912
Salmo salar brevipes Smitt, 1883
Salmo salar europaeus Payne, Child & Forrest, 1971
Salmo salar lacustris Hardin, 1862
Salmo salar nobilis Smitt, 1895
Salmo salar ouananiche McCarthy, 1894
Salmo salar saimensis Seppovaara, 1962
Salmo salar sebago Girard, 1853
Homonyms
Salmo salar Linnaeus, 1758
Common names
Alabalik atlantik in Turkish
Amerikanskiy atlanticheskiy losos' in language.
An bradán in Irish
Atlanterhavslaks in Danish
Atlanterhavslaks in language.
Atlantic Salmon in English
Atlantic Salmon in English
Atlantic salmon in language.
Atlantic salmon in English
Atlantic salmon in language.
Atlantic salmon in English
Atlantik alabalığı in Turkish
Atlantische zalm in Dutch
Atlantischer Lachs in German
Atlantischer Salmón in German
Atlantischer salmon in language.
Atlantischer salmón in German
Atlantisk laks in language.
Atlantisk laks in Danish
Atlantisk laks in Danish
Atlantski losos in Slovenian
Bay Salmon in English
Black Salmon in English
Black salmon in English
Bradan in Irish
Breeder in English
Caplin-scull Salmon in English
Common Atlantic Salmon in English
Common Atlantic salmon in English
Drooggezouten gekruide zalm in Dutch
Echter Lachs in German
Fiddler in English
Grayling in English
Grilse in English
Grilse in English
Grilt in English
Gullspångslax in Swedish
Hengst in Dutch
Hoplax in Icelandic
Ijle zalm in Dutch
Ijle zalm in language.
Jacobzalm in language.
Jacobzalm in Dutch
Jacobzalm in Dutch
Kelt in English
Kelt in English
Kippered Salmon in English
Kutenut lohi in Finnish
Lachs in German
Lachs in German

Bibliographic References

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  10. GB Non-native Species Secretariat (2016) GB Non-native Species Information Portal. https://secure.fera.defra.gov.uk/nonnativespecies/home/index.cfm (accessed 2016). https://secure.fera.defra.gov.uk/nonnativespecies/home/index.cfm
  11. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 57 Addition to the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology (a) of the specific names of Forty-seven species belonging to the classes Cyclostomata, Pisces, Amphibia and Reptilia, each of which is the type species of a genus, the name of which was placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology in the period up to the end of 1936 and (B) of the specific name of one species of the class Amphibia which is currently treated as a senior Subjective synonym of the name of such a species.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1D(D.18), 365-388 (1956)
  12. 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.
  13. King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554.
  14. King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554.
  15. Kocik, John F., and Kevin D. Friedland / Collette, Bruce B., and Grace Klein-MacPhee, eds., 2002: Salmons and Trouts: Family Salmonidae. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, Third Edition. 170-181.
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