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Salmonidae

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Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Superorder:	Protacanthopterygii
Order:	Salmoniformes
Family:	Salmonidae

Genera

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Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish, the only family of order Salmoniformes. It includes the well-known salmons and trouts; the Atlantic salmons and trouts of Genus Salmo give the family and order their names.

Together with the closely-related Esociformes (the pikes and related fishes), the Salmoniformes comprise superorder Protacanthopterygii.

Family: Salmonidae
- Subfamily: Coregoninae
  - Coregonus - Whitefishes
  - Prosopium - round whitefishes
  - Stenodus - inconnus
- Subfamily: Thymallinae
  - Thymallus - Graylings
- Subfamily: Salmoninae
  - Brachymystax - lenoks
  - Hucho
  - Oncorhynchus - Pacific Salmon and Trout
  - Parahucho
  - Salmo - Atlantic salmon and trout
  - Salvelinus - Char and trout (e.g. Brook trout, Lake trout)
  - Salvethymus

References

Behnke, Robert J. Trout and Salmon of North America, Illustrated by Joseph R. Tomelleri. 1st Chanticleer Press ed. New York: The Free Press, 2002. ISBN 0-7432-2220-2
"Salmonidae". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. October 2004 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2004.
"Salmonidae" (TSN 161931). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. N.p.: Integrated Taxonomic Information System, 2004. Accessed on 12 December 2004.
"Salmoniformes". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. October 2004 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2004.