Salmo rizeensis, Turan, Kottelat & Engin, 2009

Freyhof, JÖrg, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash & Kaya, Cüneyt, 2025, Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia, De Gruyter : 647-648

Salmo rizeensis

Common name. Pontic brook trout.

Diagnosis. Distinguished from other species of Salmo in Marmara and Black Sea basins by: ○ flank brownish in life / ○ black spots on flank usually smaller than pupil, ocellated, restricted to back and upper part of flank, absent in front of dorsal / ○ few black spots, number decreasing with size / ○ few red spots, small, ocellated, usually organised in three or four irregular rows along middle and lower part of flank / ○ number and size of red spots not changing with size /

● maxilla long, reaching beyond eye in adults and juveniles / ○ upper edge of maxilla straight or slightly convex posteriorly in male / ○ head 1.2–1.4 times in body depth at dorsal origin in male / ● adipose slender, upper edge straight or very slightly convex anteriorly / ○ 114–120 lateral-line scales counted until end of hypural complex / ○ 26–30 scale rows between dorsal origin and lateral line / ○ 18–21 scale rows between anal origin and lateral line / ○ 14–17 scale rows between adipose origin and lateral line / ○ 16–19 gill rakers. Size up to 250 mm SL.

Distribution. Black Sea basin from Georgia to Sakarya in Anatolia.

Salmo tigridis ; upper Tigris drainage, Türkiye; 210 mm SL.