Hucho

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors/Superordo: Protacanthopterygii
Ordo: Salmoniformes

Familia: Salmonidae
Subfamilia: Salmoninae
Genus: Hucho
Species: H. bleekeri – H. hucho – H. ishikawae – H. perryi – H. taimen
Name

Hucho Günther, 1866
References

Hucho – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names
беларуская: Таймені
eesti: Taimen

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.
Species

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

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Hucho bleekeri Sh. Kimura, 1934	Sichuan taimen	Yangtze basin in China
	Hucho hucho (Linnaeus, 1758)	huchen, Danube salmon	endemic to the Danube basin in Europe
	Hucho ishikawae T. Mori, 1928	Korean taimen	North Korea and China
	Hucho taimen (Pallas, 1773)	Siberian taimen, Siberian giant trout, and Siberian salmon	Siberia

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

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Hucho in FishBase. August 2016 version.
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
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

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Parahucho in FishBase. August 2016 version.

The Eurasian Huchen, Hucho hucho: Largest Salmon of the World; By J. Holcík, K. Hensel, J. Nieslanik, L. Skácel