Salmo ciscaucasicus

Salmo ciscaucasicus or the Caspian salmon is a salmonid fish endemic to the Caspian Sea and inflowing rivers .[2] It was described in 1967 originally as a subspecies of Salmo trutta.[3] S. ciscaucasicus lives on the western shore of the lake from northern Azerbaijan to the Ural River, while the main breeding river is Terek. It lives at depths down to 50 metres. Males can reach a maximum standard length of 130 centimetres.[2]

Salmo ciscaucasicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Salmoniformes
Family:
Salmonidae
Genus:
Salmo
Species:
S. ciscaucasicus
Binomial name
Salmo ciscaucasicus
Dorofeeva, 1967
Synonyms[1]
  • Salmo trutta ciscaucasicus Dorofeeva, 1967

There is another Salmo species Salmo caspius Kessler, 1877, in the southern part of the Caspian, but it is considerably smaller in size.

References
  1. Synonyms of Salmo ciscaucasicus at www.fishbase.org.
  2. Salmo ciscaucasicus at www.fishbase.org.
  3. Dorofeeva, E. A., 1967 Comparative morphological principles of taxonomy of East European salmons. Voprosy Ikhtiologii v. 7: 3-17.


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