Hucho
| 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]
- Hucho bleekeri Sh. Kimura, 1934
- Hucho hucho (Linnaeus, 1758) (huchen)
- Hucho ishikawae T. Mori, 1928
- Hucho taimen (Pallas, 1773) (taimen)
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 Daniel Pauly, 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 Daniel Pauly, eds. (2016). Species of Parahucho in FishBase. August 2016 version.
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