Salmo macrostigma is a species of freshwater trout endemic to Algeria in northwest Africa.[3][4] It can reach a length of 60 centimetres (24 in) TL.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Salmoniformes |
| Family: | Salmonidae |
| Genus: | Salmo |
| Species: | S. macrostigma
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| Salmo macrostigma (A. H. A. Duméril, 1858)
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The name Salmo trutta macrostigma (or Salmo macrostigma) has previously been used of many populations also in other regions around the Mediterranean, but in recent years those have been split into separate local species.[3][4][1]
Sources
edit- ^ a b Crivelli, A.J. (2006). "Salmo macrostigma". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T61253A12454554. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61253A12454554.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "La trota dell'Atlante - www.ittiofauna.org". Archived from the original on May 21, 2007.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b c Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Salmo macrostigma". FishBase. February 2014 version.
- ^ a b Davut Turan; Esra Doğan; Cüneyt Kaya & Mahir Kanyılmaz (2014). "Salmo kottelati, a new species of trout from Alakır Stream, draining to the Mediterranean in southern Anatolia, Turkey (Teleostei, Salmonidae)". ZooKeys (462): 135–151. Bibcode:2014ZooK..462..135T. doi:10.3897/zookeys.462.8177. PMC 4284436. PMID 25589858. "The other peri-Mediterranean populations [previously] referred to as S. macrostigma belong to several species (e.g. S. cettii in Italy and S. farioides in the eastern Adriatic drainages) (Kottelat 1997). In Turkey, besides S. rizeensis, some populations earlier misidentified as S. trutta macrostigma were described as S. tigridis Turan, Kottelat & Bektaş, 2011 (Tigris-Euphrates drainage, Persian Gulf basin), S. labecula Turan, Kottelat & Engin, 2012 (Ecemiş Stream in the lower Seyhan River, east Mediterranean basin), Kartoz and Zindan streams (tributaries of Köprü Stream, a Mediterranean coastal drainage), S. opimus Turan, Kottelat & Engin, 2012 (Tekir, Fırnız and Göçüksu streams in lower reaches of the Ceyhan River) and Alara Stream (a Mediterranean coastal drainage), S. chilo Turan, Kottelat & Engin, 2012 (Akdere Stream in the upper Ceyhan River), S. okumusi Turan, Kottelat & Engin, 2014 (western Euphrates drainage), and S. euphrataeus Turan, Kottelat & Engin, 2014 (northeastern Euphrates drainage)."
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