Hucho

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Hucho

Genus of fishes

"Taimen" redirects here. For the kayak, see Taimen (kayak).

Hucho is a genus of large piscivorous salmonid fish known as taimens (from Finnish taimen, 'trout', through Russian тайме́нь), and is closely related to Pacific trout and lenoks (all belonging to the same tribe in the subfamily Salmoninae). Native to the cold rivers and other freshwater habitats in Eurasia, they are threatened by overfishing and habitat loss.

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Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]

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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

  1. [1]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Hucho in FishBase. August 2016 version.
  2. [2]
    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
  3. [3]
    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
  4. [4]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Parahucho in FishBase. August 2016 version.


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