pN THE JWEEU, 



Order IV. 

 PHYSOSTOMI 



Family 

 SALMONID^. 



Suh-gencric group — Sai.mones. 



S)ALMON. 



f Salvia salar.) 



Salmo fluvialilis, 



Salmo, 



Salmo rostra ultra inferiorem maxillam 



SiCpe promincntc, 

 Salmo salar. 



Salmon, 



Sal mil I us, 

 Salmo sahnulus, 

 Salmo gracilis, 

 Samlt't and Parr, 



Trutta salar. 



Pliny, Nat. Hist. ix. i8. 



AusoNius, Id. X. I. 97; \V]li.u<;hrv, Hist. Pise. p. iSq. 



Artedi, Spec. Pise. p. 22 No. i. 



Flem., Brit. An. p. i6g; Jen'yns' ]\Ian. p. 421: Yarrf.ll, ii. p. i; 

 Parnell, Fish, of Firth of Forth, p. 2 78 (Wern. Nat. Hist. .Soc); 



GiJNTHER's Cat. vi. p. II. 



Pennant, Brit. Zool. iii. p. 382 ed. 181 2; Couch, Fish. Biit. Isl. iv. 



p. 163; Alex. Russel, Edmonston and Douglas, 1864. 

 Ray, Syn. Pise. p. 63. 



Jenyns' Man. p. 426; Parnell, Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc. p. 298. 

 Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl. iv. p. 216. 

 Pennant, Brit. Fish. iii. p. 404 ed. 1812; Varkell, ii. p. 8:;; 



Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl. iv. 245 pi. 221. 

 SiEBOLD, Siisserwasserf. p. 292. 



Characters of the Genus Salmo. — "Body covered with small scales; cleft of the mouth wide, the ma.xillary extending 



to below or beyond the eye. Dentition well developed; conical teeth in the jaw bones, on the vomer and palatines, 



and on the tongue, none on the pterygoid bones. Anal short, with less than fourteen rays. Pyloric a]ipendages 

 numerous; ova larcre." — Gunther. 



