caspius, Salmo Kessler [K. F.] 1877:62, Pl. 2 (fig. 15) [The Aralo-Caspian Expedition; ref. 2597] Kura River near Bozhii Promysel fishing grounds, Azerbaijan. Syntypes: (3) not at ZIN. •Synonym of Salmo trutta Linnaeus 1758, but a valid subspecies -- (Berg 1948:242 [ref. 12882], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:729 [ref. 24702], Dorofeeva & Savvaitova 1998:36 [ref. 23574]). •Listed -- (Kottelat 1997:143 [ref. 22952]). •Synonym of Salmo trutta Linnaeus 1758 -- (Kalayci et al. 2018:803 [ref. 36785]). •Valid as Salmo caspius Kessler 1877 -- (Fricke et al. 2007:55 [ref. 29533], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:168 [ref. 31251], Esmaeili et al. 2010:374 [ref. 33391], Turan et al. 2010:362 [ref. 30689], Turan et al. 2011:32 [ref. 31466], Turan et al. 2012:234 [ref. 32276], Turan et al. 2014:285 [ref. 33242], Turan et al. 2014:149 [ref. 33615], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:891 [ref. 34062], Çiçek et al. 2015:150 [ref. 35151], Esmaeili et al. 2017:76 [ref. 35254], Turan et al. 2017:62 [ref. 35485], Esmaeili et al. 2018:57 [ref. 36089], Ninua et al. 2018:[12] [ref. 35786], Çiçek et al. 2020:255 [ref. 37644], Dyldin et al. 2020:83 [ref. 37569], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:220 [ref. 37983], Kaya et al. 2020:340 [ref. 37582], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[6] [ref. 37535], Turan et al. 2020:1461 [ref. 37608], Schöffmann 2021:208 [ref. 38997], Segherloo et al. 2021:10 [ref. 39584], Pozdeev et al. 2022:6 [ref. 39511], Turan et al. 2022:56 [ref. 39307], Çiçek et al. 2023:422 [ref. 40625], Çiçek et al. 2024:287 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Salmo caspius Kessler 1877. Salmonidae: Salmoninae. Distribution: Eurasia: Kura River drainage and southern and southwestern Caspian Sea watersheds. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.
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