Oncorhynchus mykiss
Description
Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792) [I]—Rainbow trout
Taxonomy. Original description: Salmo mykiss Walbaum 1792: 59 (Kamchatka, Russia; no types known).— Afghanistan 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.
Status in Afghanistan. First record from Afghanistan by Dupree (1973); confirmed by Coad (1981: 8 as Salmo gairdnerii; 2014: 318).—Afghanistan materials: None.
Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: 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 occurs in various habitats, including clear, small to large rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. Freshwater, brackish, marine.
Economic importance. Commercially important.
Reasons of introduction. Aquaculture/research.
Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).
Remarks. About 500.000 fingerlings have been released into Salang and Panjsher rivers (Coad 1981; Duppre 1973). This species 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, Fricke, Eagderi, Sungur, Coad & Hamdard, 2023
References
- Walbaum, J. J. (1792) Online 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) s. n. In: 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. Russian Academy of Sciences, USSR, Moskva, 466 pp. [in Russian. English translation available, Israel Prog. Sci. Transl., Jerusalem, 1962, 504 pp.]
- Stearley, R. F. & Smith, G. R. (1993) Phylogeny of the Pacific trouts and salmons (Oncorhynchus) and genera of the family Salmonidae. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 122 (1), 1 - 33. https: // doi. org / 10.1577 / 1548 - 8659 (1993) 122 % 3 C 0001: POTPTA % 3 E 2.3. CO; 2
- Dupree, L. (1973) Afghanistan. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 804 pp.
- Coad, B. W. (1981) Fishes of Afghanistan, an annoted checklist. National Museum of Canada Publications in Zoology, 14, i - v + 1 - 26.