Hucho

Hucho is a genus of large salmonids from cold rivers and other freshwater habitats in Eurasia. They are piscivorous, and threatened by overfishing and habitat loss.

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]

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.[2][3][4]

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Hucho in FishBase. August 2016 version.
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. doi:10.1134/S102279540807003X
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. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msm083
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Parahucho in FishBase. August 2016 version.

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