Hucho
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Hucho hucho | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Salmoniformes |
Family: | Salmonidae |
Subfamily: | Salmoninae |
Genus: | Hucho Günther, 1866 |
Hucho is a genus of large salmonids from cold rivers and other freshwater habitats in Eurasia. They are piscivorous, and threatened by overfishing and habitat loss.
Species[]
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]
Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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Hucho bleekeri , 1934 | Sichuan taimen | Yangtze basin in China | |
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Hucho hucho (Linnaeus, 1758) | huchen, Danube salmon | endemic to the Danube basin in Europe |
Hucho ishikawae T. Mori, 1928 | Korean taimen | North Korea and China | |
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Hucho taimen (Pallas, 1773) | Siberian taimen, Siberian giant trout, and Siberian salmon | Siberia |
In addition, the Sakhalin taimen was formerly placed in this genus, but genetics and other evidence has shown that it belongs in its own monotypic genus as Parahucho perryi.[2][3][4]
References[]
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Hucho in FishBase. August 2016 version.
- ^ Oleinik, A.G.; and Skurikhina, L.A. (2008). Phylogenetic relationships of Sakhalin taimen Parahucho perryi inferred from PCR-RFLP analysis of mitochondrial DNA. Russian Journal of Genetics, 44:767. doi:10.1134/S102279540807003X
- ^ Matveev, V.; Nishihara, H.; & Okada, N. (2007). Novel SINE families from salmons validate Parahucho (Salmonidae) as a distinct genus and give evidence that SINEs can incorporate LINE-related 3′-tails of other SINEs. Molecular Biology and Evolution 24(8): 1656-1666. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msm083
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Parahucho in FishBase. August 2016 version.
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Categories:
- Hucho
- Taxa named by Albert Günther
- Ray-finned fish genera
- Species endangered by river-damming
- Salmoniformes stubs