Salmonidae

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Oncorhynchus tschawytscha

Animalia — Chordata

Classis : Actinopterygii
Infraclassis : Teleostei
Superordo : Protacanthopterygii
Ordo : Salmoniformes
Bleeker, 1859
Familia : Salmonidae
G. Cuvier, 1816

Palaeontologia

100–0 m.a.: Cretaceum superius > Recens^[1]

Subdivisiones: Genera

(vide textum)

Salmonidae sunt familia piscium Actinopterygiorum, sola familia in ordine Salmoniformium exstans. Salmones, ex quibus nomen accepit, tructas, atque alios pisces similes comprehendit.

Salmonidae, alios Teleosteos comparatae, aspectum habent priscum, pinnis pelvicis in parte posteriori, pinná adiposá in tergo corporis sitá. Tenues sunt et squamas rotundas, caudasque bifurcas habent.

Taxinomia

Salmoniformes unâ cum Esociformibus, Osmeriformibus, atque Argentiniformibus propinquis, superordinem Protacanthopterygiorum constituunt.

Salmonidae dividuntur in tres subfamilias et circiter decem genera:^[1]

Ordo Salmoniformes

Familia: Salmonidae
- Subfamilia: Coregoninae
  - Coregonus (78 species)
  - Prosopium (6 species)
  - Stenodus (1 aut 2 species)
- Subfamilia: Thymallinae
  - Thymallus (13 species)
- Subfamilia: Salmoninae
  - Brachymystax (3 species)
  - † Eosalmo (1 species)
  - Hucho (5 species)
  - Oncorhynchus (12 species)
  - Salmo (43 species)
  - Salvelinus (51 species)
  - Salvethymus (1 species)