Oncorhynchus mykiss ( Walbaum, 1792 )

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Fricke, Ronald, Sungur, Sevil, Çapar, Osman Bahadir & Golani, Daniel, 2023, Freshwater fishes of Israel; a revised and updated annotated checklist- 2023, Zootaxa 5369 (4), pp. 451-484 : 464

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scientific name	Oncorhynchus mykiss ( Walbaum, 1792 )
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Oncorhynchus mykiss ( Walbaum, 1792) View in CoL [I]—Rainbow trout; Trutat ein ha’keshet

Taxonomy. Original description: Salmo mykiss Walbaum, 1792: 59 [Kamchatka, Russia; no types known].— Israel synonyms: Salmo gairdnerii Richardson, 1836 .—Revisions: Berg (1948: 267) as Salmo mykiss ; Stearley & Smith (1993: 21) as Oncorhynchus mykiss mykiss .—Illustration: Berg (1948: 268, fig. 155) as Salmo mykiss, Jawad et al. (2019) .

Status in Israel. First record from Israel by Hornell (1935); confirmed by Goren & Ortal (1999), ( Golani & Mires 2000).—Israel materials: HUJ.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Israel: It was introduced in the 1930’s and aquaculture farms were established in the late 1940’s in northern Israel.—Distribution in River Basin: 3-Kinneret Basin.—General distribution: North Pacific and adjacent basins; widely introduced elsewhere.—Distribution in Ecoregion: 438- Jordan River.—Habitat: This species usually occurs in cold streams, rivers, and lakes, but is also found in various habitats. Freshwater, brackish, marine.

Economic importance. Commercially important.

Reasons of introduction. Aquaculture.

Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).

Remarks. This species is a mostly cultured, cold-water fish. This species can be found around fish farming facilities and are established in suitable habitats due to specimens escaping from fish farms.

References

Berg, L. S. (1948) Ryby presnych vod SSSR i sopredelnych stan. [Freshwater fishes of the U. S. S. R. and adjacent countries]. Vol. 1. 4 th Edition. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR. [Guide to the fauna of the U. S. S. R.]. Freshwater fishes of the U. S. S. R. and adjacent countries No. 27. Academy of Sciences of the U. S. S. R., Zoological Institute, Moskva, 466 pp. [in Russian, English translation appeared in Israel Program of Scientific Translation, Jerusalem, 1962, 504 pp.]

Golani, D. & Mires, D. (2000) Introduction of fishes to the freshwater system of Israel. Israel Journal of Aquaculture - Bamidgeh, 52, 47 - 60.

Goren, M. & Ortal, R. (1999) Biogeography, diversity and conservation of the inland water communities in Israel. Biological Conservation, 89, 1 - 9. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / S 0006 - 3207 (98) 00127 - X

Hornell, J. (1935) Reporton the Fisheries of Palestine. Crown Agent for the Colonies. His Majesty's Stationary Office, London. 106 pp.

Jawad, L. A., Jassim, A. K., Tahir Ankush, M. A. W. & Abed, J. M. (2019) Flushed with the flood: the rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss in the Shatt Al-Arab River, Basrah, Iraq. Thalassia Salentina, 41, 119 - 126.

Stearley, R. F. & Smith, G. R. (1993) Phylogeny of the Pacific trouts and salmons (Oncorhynchus) and genera of the family Salmonidae. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 122 (1), 1 - 33. https: // doi. org / 10.1577 / 1548 - 8659 (1993) 122 % 3 C 0001: POTPTA % 3 E 2.3. CO; 2

Walbaum, J. J. (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 III. Ant. Ferdin. Rose, Grypeswaldiae [Greifswald], (viii) + 723 pp., pls. 1 - 3.