Oncorhynchus mykiss
Creators
- 1. Department of Biology, Faculty of Art and Sciences, Nevşehir Hacı BektaşVeli University, Nevşehir, Türkiye
- 2. School of Environmental and Animal Sciences, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
- 3. Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
- 4. Ichthyology and Molecular Systematics Research Laboratory, Zoology Section, Department of Biology, School of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
- 5. Health Services Vocational School, Nevşehir Hacı BektaşVeli University, Nevşehir, Türkiye
- 6. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
Description
Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792) [I]—Rainbow trout
Taxonomy. Original description: Salmo mykiss Walbaum, 1792: 59 [Kamchatka, Russia; no types known].— Iraq synonyms: Salmo gairdnerii Richardson, 1836.—Revisions: Berg (1948: 267) as Salmo mykiss; Stearley & Smith (1993: 21) as Oncorhynchus mykiss mykiss.—Illustration: Berg (1948: 268, fig. 155) as Salmo mykiss, Jawad et al. (2019).
Status in Iraq. First record from Iraq by Abdulrahman et al. 2017; confirmed by Jawad et al. 2019.—Iraq materials: Fish collection at the Marine Science Cente, University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq.
Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: This species is mostly cultured cold-water fish. Can not be breeding in the wild water. Therefore, can find around fish farming facility are established in suitable habitats.— General distribution: North Pacific and adjacent basins; widely introduced elsewhere.—Habitat: This species usually occurs in cold streams, rivers, and lakes, but is also found in various habitats. Freshwater, brackish, marine.
Economic importance. Commercially important.
Reasons of introduction. Aquaculture/research.
Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).
Remarks. This specie does not reproduce naturally in the wild. It may be locally present due to specimens escaping from fish farms.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Salmonidae
- Genus
- Oncorhynchus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Salmoniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Walbaum
- Species
- mykiss
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792) sec. Çiçek, Jawad, Eagderi, Esmaeili, Mouludi-Saleh, Sungur & Fricke, 2023
References
- Walbaum, J. J. (1792) Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis. Redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52. Ichthyologiae Pars III. Ant. Ferdin. Rose, Grypeswaldiae [Greifswald], (viii) + 723 pp., pls. 1 - 3.
- Berg, L. S. (1948) Ryby presnych vod SSSR i sopredelnych stan. [Freshwater fishes of the U. S. S. R. and adjacent countries]. Vol. 1. 4 th Edition. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR. [Guide to the fauna of the U. S. S. R.], Moskva. Freshwater fishes of the U. S. S. R. and adjacent countries, No. 27, 1 - 466. [in Russian. English translation available, Israel Prog. Sci. Transl., Jerusalem, 1962, p. 1 - 504]
- Abdulrahman, N. M., Ahmed, V. M., Ameen, H. J., Salih, H. A., Latif, B. M., Ali, S. S. & Ahmed, A. A. (2017) Comparative study of on fish health indices of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) reared in two sites in Sulaimani governorate, north of Iraq. Biological and Applied Environmental Research, 1 (2), 228 - 236.