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Salmo coruhensis

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Species of fish

Salmo coruhensis
Conservation status

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Genus: Salmo
Species: S. coruhensis
Binomial name
Salmo coruhensis
Turan, Kottelat & Engin, 2010

Salmo coruhensis is a species of trout, a freshwater salmonid fish. It lives in streams flowing into the Black Sea, in Turkey and possibly Georgia.

This fish is silvery in colour with distinctive red spots and can grow to 80 cm length. It lives in clear, flowing water, particularly in middle stretches of the main branches of rivers and streams. On the other hand, it is also found in short coastal streams. After spawning it moves to the sea but stays near the river mouths, or in the lower stretches of rivers. It migrates upstream to breed in October–November.

Etymology; named after Çoruh River due to mainly occurring within Çoruh basin.

References

  1. Turan, D., M. Kottelat and S. Engin, 2009. Two new species of trouts, resident and migratory, sympatric in streams of northern Anatolia (Salmoniformes: Salmonidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 20(4):333-364.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Salmo coruhensis". FishBase.
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