labrax, Salmo Pallas [P. S.] 1814:346 [Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica v. 3; ref. 3351] Sivastopol and Biyuk-ozen River; Chersones; and Ochakov, Crimea, Ukraine. Syntypes: whereabouts unknown. •Synonym of Salmo trutta Linnaeus 1758, but a valid subspecies -- (Berg 1948:239 [ref. 12882], Svetovidov 1973:145 [ref. 7169], Svetovidov in Whitehead et al. 1984:383 [ref. 13675], Lelek 1987:109 [ref. 22962], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:729 [ref. 24702], Dorofeeva & Savvaitova 1998:36 [ref. 23574], Dorofeeva 1998:442 [ref. 24680], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:165 [ref. 28369], Parin et al. 2014:138 [ref. 33547]). •Synonym of Salmo trutta Linnaeus 1758 -- (Kalayci et al. 2018:803 [ref. 36785]). •Valid as Salmo labrax Pallas 1814 -- (Kottelat 1997:136 [ref. 22952], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:40 [ref. 26753], Delling 2002:299 [ref. 26660], Fricke et al. 2007:55 [ref. 29533], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:429 [ref. 29996], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:168 [ref. 31251], Turan et al. 2010:362 [ref. 30689], Turan et al. 2014:149 [ref. 33615], Çiçek et al. 2015:150 [ref. 35151], Artüz & Fricke 2019:553 [ref. 36612], Ćaleta et al. 2019:178 [ref. 37026], Özuluğ & Saç 2019:32 [ref. 36599] as cf. labrax, Çiçek et al. 2020:255 [ref. 37644], Dyldin et al. 2020:84, 103 [ref. 37569], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[6] [ref. 37535], Abliazov et al. 2021:8 [ref. 38576], Schöffmann 2021:173 [ref. 38997], Segherloo et al. 2021:10 [ref. 39584], Niță et al. 2022:129 [ref. 40471], Turan et al. 2022:62 [ref. 39307], Çiçek et al. 2023:425 [ref. 40625], Shumka et al. 2023:39 [ref. 40747], Çiçek et al. 2024:290 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Salmo labrax Pallas 1814. Salmonidae: Salmoninae. Distribution: Eurasia: Black Sea and adjacent watersheds; introduced in Tigris-Euphrates watersheds. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.