Neotype designation for Salmo spurius Pallas, 1814 (Teleostei: Salmonidae)

N.G. Bogutskaya & E.A. Dorofeyeva

Abstract. The original description of Salmo spurius Pallas, 1814 is based on Pallas’s own material and the literature sources, which include at least two species-group taxa. A specimen from the Gulf of Finland, deposited at Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg, is designated as neotype of S. spurius. As result of this designation, the unused name S. spurius becomes a junior synonym of S. trutta trutta Linnaeus, 1758 and does not threaten the current nomenclature of trouts from the Caspian Sea basin.

Zoosystematica Rossica, 2007, 16(1): 135-137  ▪  Published in print 15 June 2007


https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2007.16.1.135  ▪  Open full article  

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