Salmo is a genus of ray-finned fish from the subfamily Salmoninae of family Salmonidae, and is part of the tribe Salmonini along with the sister genera Salvelinus and Salvethymus. Almost all Salmo spe
Salmon are any of several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic and
Salmo
…while most of the other Salmo species are narrowly distributed forms endemic to single watersheds. The name Salmo derives from the Latin salmō, meaning salmon. The vast majority of the Salmo species have trout as their common name, except the Atlantic salmon, which along with six Pacific species from the genus…
Salmo salar
Pacific salmon leaping at Willamette Falls, Oregon
Life cycle of Pacific salmon
Eggs in different stages of development: In some, only a few cells grow on top of the yolk, in the lower right, the blood vessels surround the yolk, and in the upper left, the black eyes are visible, even the little lens.