Salmonidae - Definition and Overview

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
    • 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" (http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/FamilySummary.cfm?Family=Salmonidae). FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. October 2004 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2004.
• "Salmonidae" (TSN 161931) (http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=161931). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. N.p.: Integrated Taxonomic Information System, 2004. Accessed on 12 December 2004.
• "Salmoniformes" (http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/OrdersSummary.cfm?order=Salmoniformes). FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. October 2004 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2004.