Hucho Explained

Hucho is a genus of large piscivorous salmonid fish known as taimens (from Finnish Finnish: taimen, 'trout', through Russian Russian: тайме́нь|taĭménʹ), and is closely related to Pacific trout and lenoks (all belonging to the same tribe in the subfamily Salmoninae). Native to the cold rivers and other freshwater habitats in Eurasia, they are threatened by overfishing and habitat loss.

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Hucho bleekeri Sh. Kimura, 1934	Sichuan taimen	Yangtze basin in China
	Hucho hucho (Linnaeus, 1758)	huchen, Danube salmon	endemic to the Danube basin in Europe
	Hucho ishikawae T. Mori, 1928	Korean taimen	North Korea and China
	Hucho taimen (Pallas, 1773)	Siberian taimen, Siberian giant trout, and Siberian salmon	Siberia

In addition, the Sakhalin taimen was formerly placed in this genus, but genetics and other evidence has shown that it belongs in its own monotypic genus as Parahucho perryi.^{[1] [2]}

References

• The Eurasian Huchen, Hucho hucho: Largest Salmon of the World; By J. Holcík, K. Hensel, J. Nieslanik, L. Skácel

Notes and References

1. Oleinik, A.G.; and Skurikhina, L.A. (2008). Phylogenetic relationships of Sakhalin taimen Parahucho perryi inferred from PCR-RFLP analysis of mitochondrial DNA. Russian Journal of Genetics, 44:767.
2. Matveev, V.; Nishihara, H.; & Okada, N. (2007). Novel SINE families from salmons validate Parahucho (Salmonidae) as a distinct genus and give evidence that SINEs can incorporate LINE-related 3′-tails of other SINEs. Molecular Biology and Evolution 24(8): 1656-1666.