Oncorhynchus mykiss
Authors/Creators
- 1. Al Andalus University, Kadmus, Tartus, Syria / Syrian Society for Aquatic Environment Protection, Lattakia, Syria.
- 2. Department of Biology, Faculty of Art and Sciences, Nevþehir Hacý BektaþVeli University, Nevþehir, T ¸ rkiye.
- 3. Ichthyology and Molecular Systematics Research Laboratory, Zoology Section, Department of Biology, School of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
- 4. Staatliches Museum f ¸ r Naturkunde in Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany.
- 5. Health Services Vocational School, Nevþehir Hacý BektaþVeli University, Nevþehir, T ¸ rkiye.
- 6. Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran.
Description
Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792) [I]—Rainbow trout; Truit kaous kasah
Taxonomy. Original description: Salmo mykiss Walbaum, 1792: 59 [Kamchatka, Russia; no types known].—Syrian 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 Syria. First record from Syria by Saad et al. (2006); confirmed by Saad et al. (2009).—Syrian materials: MSL.
Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Syria: Upper part of the Orontes River near the Syrian-Lebanese border (Rabla town), where breeding farms for this species are established within the Syrian borders by bringing fingerlings from breeding farms in Lebanon, the Hermel region on the Lebanese side of the border. It was introduced to Syria during the seventies of the last century, when imported eggs were hatched in the Zabadani area west of Damascus, where cold water was available, and then the fingerlings were transported to fattening farms on the Syrian coast near the Al-Sin spring. It is still cultivated in cold spring basins near Jabal Al-Sheikh, east of Quneitra (Syrian Golan), and in the area of Ribla (Orontes River) near the Syrian-Lebanese border (where cold water is available in the upper part of the Al-Asi (Orontes) River.—Distribution in River Basin: 4- Orontes.—General distribution: North Pacific and adjacent basins; widely introduced elsewhere.—Distribution in Ecoregion: 437-Orontes.—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 species is mostly cultured cold-water fish. This species cannot reproduce in the environment on its own. Due to the escape of fish farm specimens, suitable habitats have been established in the vicinity of fish farms.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Walbaum
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Salmoniformes
- Family
- Salmonidae
- Genus
- Oncorhynchus
- Species
- mykiss
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792) sec. Saad, Çiçek, Esmaeili, Fricke, Sungur & Eagderi, 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], [iviii] + 723 pp., pls. 1 - 3.
- Jawad, L. A., Jassim, A. K., Tahir Ankush, M. A. W. & Abed, J. M. (2019) Flushed with the flood: the rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss in the Shatt Al-Arab River, Basrah, Iraq. Thalassia Salentina, 41, 119 - 126.
- Saad, A., Hammoud, N., Khalaf, Gh., Alzin, Gh., Al Hawi, E. & Ali, A. (2006) A comparative study of the biological diversity of fish fauna in the Orontes River basin in both Syria and Lebanon. Sustainable Agricultural Development and Food Security Conference, 6 - 9 November 2006. Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria. [unknown pagination]
- Saad, A., Khalaf, G., Alzein, G., Abdellatif, A., Sabour, W., Alhawi, I. & Hammoud, N. (2009) An updated check list of Fish in the Orontes River Basin within Syria and Lebanon. Final report of the joint Lebanese-Syrian scientific research project, Contract No. 119 of 2006. s. n., s. l., 62 pp. [in Arabic with an English summary]