Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass Pisces > Class Actinopterygii > Order Salmoniformes > Family Salmonidae > Subfamily Salmoninae > Genus Oncorhynchus

Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Salmo Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Oncorhynchus*	Suckley, 1861	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Salmo mykiss*	Walbaum, 1792	objective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bokmål (Norwegian): regnbueørret sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Danish: regnbueørred sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: regenboogforel; zalmforel sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Belgisch staatsblad 07-08-1996: Koninklijk besluit houdende reglementering van de benamingen van visserijprodukten en verwerkte visserijprodukten

English: rainbow trout; steelhead trout; syeelhead trout sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);de Groot, B.; Dijkema, R.; Redant, F. (1988). Fish, shells and shellfish: an illustrated guide with descriptions, supply times and recipes of more than 400 sea and freshwater species [Vis, schelp- en schaaldieren: een geïllustreerde gids met de beschrijvingen, aanvoertijden en bereidingswijzen van ruim 400 soorten uit zee en zoet water]. Spectrum: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-274-20203. 180 pp.;Gillespie, G. E. 1993. An updated list of the fishes of British Columbia, and those of interest in adjacent waters, with numeric code designations. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 1918: 116 p.

English-United States: Rainbow Trout sources: Charles Hussey

French: truite; truite arc-en-ciel; truite arc-en-ciel anadrome; truite saumonée sources: Belgisch staatsblad 07-08-1996: Koninklijk besluit houdende reglementering van de benamingen van visserijprodukten en verwerkte visserijprodukten;Gillespie, G. E. 1993. An updated list of the fishes of British Columbia, and those of interest in adjacent waters, with numeric code designations. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 1918: 116 p.

German: Forelle; Lachsforelle; Regenbogenforelle sources: Belgisch staatsblad 07-08-1996: Koninklijk besluit houdende reglementering van de benamingen van visserijprodukten en verwerkte visserijprodukten;Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee

Italian: trotta iridea sources: de Groot, B.; Dijkema, R.; Redant, F. (1988). Fish, shells and shellfish: an illustrated guide with descriptions, supply times and recipes of more than 400 sea and freshwater species [Vis, schelp- en schaaldieren: een geïllustreerde gids met de beschrijvingen, aanvoertijden en bereidingswijzen van ruim 400 soorten uit zee en zoet water]. Spectrum: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-274-20203. 180 pp.

Norwegian: regnbueørret sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: regnbueørret

Norwegian Nynorsk: regnbogeaure

Nynorsk (Norwegian): regnbogeaure sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: pstrąg tęczowy sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: trucha arcoiris sources: de Groot, B.; Dijkema, R.; Redant, F. (1988). Fish, shells and shellfish: an illustrated guide with descriptions, supply times and recipes of more than 400 sea and freshwater species [Vis, schelp- en schaaldieren: een geïllustreerde gids met de beschrijvingen, aanvoertijden en bereidingswijzen van ruim 400 soorten uit zee en zoet water]. Spectrum: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-274-20203. 180 pp.

Swedish: regnbåge sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: brithyll seithliw

Literature

basis of record	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
additional source	Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p.
additional source	King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554.
additional source	Walbaum, J.J. (Ed.) (1792). Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium in quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis: redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52: Ichthyologiae pars 3. Ant. Ferdin. Röse: Grypeswaldiae. 723, 3 plates pp.
additional source	Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp.
additional source	Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453
additional source	FishBase, version december 2007
additional source	FishBase, version may 2009
additional source	FishBase, version october 2012
additional source	Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology.
additional source	Fishbase

Genbank

Taxonomy

FishBase
WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (670652 nucleotides; 6916 proteins)
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (58 publications)
Barcode of Life (310 barcodes)
FishBase
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

Bailly, N. (2014). Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2014) FishBase. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127185

Dr Jorg Freyhof. Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=304720