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Salmonidae

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Description

Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish, the only living family currently placed in the order Salmoniformes. It includes salmon, trout, chars, freshwater whitefishes, and graylings, which collectively are known as the salmonids. The Atlantic salmon and trout of the genus Salmo give the family and order their names.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmonidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	8615	https://www.gbif.org/species/8615
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	265822	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=265822

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Salmoniformes : Salmonidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Salmoniformes : Salmonidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
superclass	Actinopterygii
class	Actinopteri
subclass	Neopterygii
-	Teleosteomorpha	Arratia et al. 2004
-	Teleostei
-	Osteoglossocephalai
-	Clupeocephala	Patterson and Rosen 1977
-	Euteleosteomorpha
superorder	Protacanthopterygii	Greenwood et al. 1966
order	Salmoniformes	Bleeker 1859
family	Salmonidae

Scientific Name

Salmonidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Salmonidae	family	belongs to Isospondyli	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Salmonidae	family	belongs to Salmonoidei	stated without evidence	Jordan, 1963
Salmonidae	family	belongs to Osteichthyes	stated without evidence	Wilson, 1967
Salmonidae	family	belongs to Salmoniformes	stated with evidence	Fierstine et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

6 (43%)

First Recorded Appearance

47.8 - 41.3 Ma
Eocene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Salmoniformes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Salmoniformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. Betancur-R., R. E. Broughton, and E. O. Wiley, K. Carpenter, J. A. López, C. Li, N. I. Holcroft, D. Arcila, M. Sanciangco, J. C. Cureton, F. Zhang, T. Buser, M. A. Campbell, J. A. Ballesteros, A. Roa-Varon, S. Willis, W. C. Borden, T. Rowley, P. C. Reneau, G. Lu, T. Grande, G. Arratia, G. 2013. The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes. PLOS Currents Tree of Life

Common Name(s)

Zalmen, Salmonids, Salmons, Trouts, Trouts And Salmons, Truites Et Saumons, Truchas Y Salmones, Laxfiskar, Laksefamilien, サケ

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmonidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Brachymystax genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Coregonus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hucho genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leptichthys ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Oncorhynchus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Pacific Salmon	4	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Osmerus genus	listed (PBDB)		2	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Parahucho genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Prosopium genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Rhabdofario ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Salmo genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Salmon			0 Ma Extant
Salvelinus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Salvethymus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Stenodus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thymallus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1902	Salmonidae Hay p. 392
1963	Salmonidae Jordan p. 624
1967	Salmonidae Wilson p. 200
2012	Salmonidae Fierstine et al. p. 42
2013	Salmonidae Betancur-R. et al.

References

Betancur-R. R., Broughton R. E., et al (2013) The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes, PLOS Currents Tree of Life doi:10.1371/currents.tol.53ba26640df0ccaee75bb165c8c26288

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Jordan D. S. (1963) The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes, Stanford University Press, 1-816

Wilson R. L. (1967) The Pleistocene vertebrates of Michigan, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 52, 197-234

Fierstine H. L., Huddleston R. W., et al (2012) Catalog of the Neogene bony fishes of California: A ystematic inventory of all published accounts, Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 159, 1-206

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2003: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Nelson, Joseph S., 1984: null. Fishes of the World, Second Edition. xv + 523. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Eschmeyer online (Jul 2012) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

FishBase - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2019). Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2019. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2019). Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2019. - via World Register of Marine Species

Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230. - via World Register of Marine Species

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