Salmon and trout genera are the genera of the family Salmonidae, which Animal Diversity Web describes as 66 species of salmon, trout, whitefish and their relatives found throughout the northern hemisphere, almost all anadromous, and needing cold, clean waters to survive. GBIF is led by Coregonus with about 217 descendant taxa, Salmo with about 194, Salvelinus with about 76, Oncorhynchus with about 57 and Thymallus with about 35, followed by Prosopium, Hucho, Brachymystax, Stenodus and Parahucho.
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Animal Diversity Web: Salmonidae
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There are 66 species of salmon, trout, whitefish, and their relatives.
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Salmonidae
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"canonicalName":"Oncorhynchus","vernacularName":"Pacific salmon","authorship":"Suckley, 1861","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Suckley, G. 1861. Notices of certain new species of North American Salmonidae, chiefly in the collection of the N. W. Boundary Commission, in charge of Archibald Campbell, Esq., Commissioner of the United States, collected by Doctor C. B. R. Kennerly, naturalist to the Commission. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 7(art. 30): 306-313.","numDescendants":57
Children of Salmonidae: Coregonus
"canonicalName":"Coregonus","vernacularName":"Whitefishes","authorship":"Linnaeus, 1758","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ","numDescendants":217
Children of Salmonidae: Salmo
"canonicalName":"Salmo","vernacularName":"salmon","authorship":"Linnaeus, 1758","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ","numDescendants":194
Children of Salmonidae: Salvelinus
"canonicalName":"Salvelinus","vernacularName":"Chars","authorship":"Richardson, 1836","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Richardson, John in Richardson, John. 1836.","numDescendants":76
Children of Salmonidae: Thymallus
"canonicalName":"Thymallus","vernacularName":"Graylings","authorship":"Linck, 1790","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Linck, H.F. (1790). Versuch einer Eintheilung der Fische nach den Zähnen. Mag. Neuste Phys. Naturgesch. Gotha 6(3): 28-38.","numDescendants":35
Children of Salmonidae: Prosopium
"canonicalName":"Prosopium","vernacularName":"round whitefishes","authorship":"Jordan, 1878","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Jordan, David S. in Jordan, David S. 1878.","numDescendants":15
Children of Salmonidae: Hucho
"canonicalName":"Hucho","vernacularName":"Taimens","authorship":"Günther, 1866","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Günther, Albert C. L. G. 1866. Catalogue of the fishes of the British Museum. Volume 6. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Salmonidae, Percopsidae, Galaxidae, Mormyridae, Gymnarchidae, Esocidae, Umbridae, Scombresocidae, Cyprinodontidae, in the collection of the British Museum. Taylor & Francis, London. Vol. 6: i-xv, 1-368.","numDescendants":6
Children of Salmonidae: Brachymystax
"canonicalName":"Brachymystax","vernacularName":"Lenoks","authorship":"Günther, 1866","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Günther, Albert C. L. G. 1866. Catalogue of the fishes of the British Museum. Volume 6. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Salmonidae, Percopsidae, Galaxidae, Mormyridae, Gymnarchidae, Esocidae, Umbridae, Scombresocidae, Cyprinodontidae, in the collection of the British Museum. Taylor & Francis, London. Vol. 6: i-xv, 1-368.","numDescendants":5
Children of Salmonidae: Stenodus
"canonicalName":"Stenodus","vernacularName":"inconnus","authorship":"Richardson, 1836","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Richardson, John. 1836. Fishes. In: Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 ( , ed.),.","numDescendants":3
Children of Salmonidae: Parahucho
"canonicalName":"Parahucho","authorship":"Vladykov, 1963","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"in Vladykov & Gruchy, J. Fish. Res. Bd Can. 29:","numDescendants":2
View the Source Wikipedia: Oncorhynchus
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Oncorhynchus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae, native to coldwater tributaries of the North Pacific basin.
Salmo - Wikipedia
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Salmo is a genus of ray-finned fish from the subfamily Salmoninae of family Salmonidae, and is part of the tribe Salmonini along with the sister genera Salvelinus and Salvethymus.
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