Oncorhynchus mykiss ( Walbaum, 1792 )

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Jawad, Laith, Eagderi, Soheil, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Mouludi-Saleh, Atta, Sungur, Sevil & Fricke, Ronald, 2023, Freshwater fishes of Iraq: a revised and updated annotated checklist- 2023, Zootaxa 5357 (1), pp. 1-49 : 27

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scientific name	Oncorhynchus mykiss ( Walbaum, 1792 )
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Oncorhynchus mykiss ( Walbaum, 1792) View in CoL [I]—Rainbow trout

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

Status in Iraq. First record from Iraq by Abdulrahman et al. 2017; confirmed by Jawad et al. 2019.—Iraq materials: Fish collection at the Marine Science Cente, University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: This species is mostly cultured cold-water fish. Can not be breeding in the wild water. Therefore, can find around fish farming facility are established in suitable habitats.— General distribution: North Pacific and adjacent basins; widely introduced elsewhere.—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/research.

Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).

Remarks. This specie does not reproduce naturally in the wild. It may be locally present due to specimens escaping from fish farms.

References

Abdulrahman, N. M., Ahmed, V. M., Ameen, H. J., Salih, H. A., Latif, B. M., Ali, S. S. & Ahmed, A. A. (2017) Comparative study of on fish health indices of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) reared in two sites in Sulaimani governorate, north of Iraq. Biological and Applied Environmental Research, 1 (2), 228 - 236.

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.], Moskva. Freshwater fishes of the U. S. S. R. and adjacent countries, No. 27, 1 - 466. [in Russian. English translation available, Israel Prog. Sci. Transl., Jerusalem, 1962, p. 1 - 504]

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.