SALM0NID7E. 
849 
THE SALMON (sw. laxen). 
SALMO SALAR. 
Plate XXXVII, figs. 3 and 4; plates XXXVIII— XL. 
Scales small, but their number in a longitudinal row above the lateral line just in front of the perpendicular from 
the beginning of the dorsal fin and extending along Vio °f ^ ie length of the body at most 24 a (as a rule 16 — 
20 b ), and in a similar row above the lateral line behind the perpendicular from the beginning of the anal fin at 
most 19° (as a rule 14 — 18). Sides of the body more or less distinctly spotted with black. 
R. hr. (9)10 
12(13)^; D. 
(2)3-4 
(7—8)9—12’ 
A. 
2—4 
7—9(10)’ 
p . y 
(10—11)12 — 14 ’ 
Ser. squ. lat. e ca 120 — 140 
1 
(6)7— 8(9 ) ; C ' 
; Vert. 57 — 60 A 
x 4- 1 + 17 + 1 + x; 
S/jn. Trutta 1. Salmo proprie, Nilss., Skand. Fa., Fisk., p. 368. 
Salmo salar, Sundev., v. Wr., Skand. Fisk., ed. I, tab. 58 et 
59; Smitt, Vet.-Akad. Haridl., Bd. 21 (1885), No. 8, 
p. 162. 
Var. Salmo salar sens. str. 1. nobilis: Spinae branchiales lateri 
anteriori arcus pritni paris affixse numeri sunt minimi 18 — 
vulgo 19 — 21(22). Longitude ossis maxillaris maximam 
partem 
longitudinis corporis vel longitudinis capitis 
1000 ° * 1 100 b F 
ajquat. Distantia inter pinnain adiposam et pinnam caudalem 
longitudine superat altitudinem pinnae analis. Altitude minima 
caudee maximam partem 
27 
1000 
longitudinis praeabdominis 
baud aequat. Maculie nigrae sub linea laterali nullae vel paucae 
solum adsunt. 
Fig. 210. Two young Salmon, the upper figure a female 2 years old from the Hatchery of Hofsmolla on the R. Laga in Halland, the 
lower a mature male, hooked in the R. Nissa off Halmstad in April, 1863. Natural size. 
a Extremely seldom 25, in which case the number of scales on the tail may be employed as a character. 
1 10 — 12 scales on an extent = 1 / 4 of the length of the head, as Nilsson expressed this character; 9 — 13, according to Lilljeborg. 
c Extremely seldom 21, in which case the number of scales on the forepart of the body may be employed as a character. 
(1 Extremely seldom 8 or 14. 
e Counted above the lateral line; in the lateral line itself 115 — 130, according to Day. 
f Sometimes 61, according to Nilsson. 
