Il salmerino haddy, Salvelinus killinensis

(Günther, 1866)

Nomi comuni esteri - Inglese - Haddy.

Salvelinus killinensis (Günther, 1866). Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London 1865 (tav. 3). Sinonimo senior, nuova combinazione, nomenclatura ICZN valida.

Salmo killinensis Günther, 1866. Contribution to the knowledge of the British charrs. Part III. Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London 1865 (tav. 3): 698-699, Pl. 40. Sinonimo senior, combinazione originale, nomenclatura ICZN non valida. Opinioni - Nomenclatura valida come Salmo killinensis (Günther 1866), vedere Kottelat 1997:154, Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:439. Località tipo - Loch Killin, Inverness-shire, Scozia. Tipo - Nessuno. Sintipi - British Museum, Natural History, Londra, Gran Bretagna,1865.10.18.15-18 (4); Zoologisches Museum, Humboldt Universitat, Berlino, Germania, 8330 [ex BMNH] (1).

Note tassonomiche - Specie a lungo ritenuta presente solo a Loch Killin in Scozia. Questa o altre specie simili sono state segnalate recentemente in diversi altri laghi scozzesi. La seguente diagnosi si basa in gran parte su queste ultime popolazioni.

Fonti bibliografiche principali - Kottelat M. and J. Freyhof 2007. Handbook of European freshwater fishes. Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland and Freyof, Berlin, Germany. Pagina 439.

Bibliografia - Anon., 1999. Fish collection database of the Natural History Museum, London (formerly British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)). Natural History Museum, London (formerly British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)).

Alexander, G. D. & Adams, C. E. 2000. The phenotypic diversity of Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus, (Salmonidae) in Scotland and Ireland.

Eschmeyer, W. N., Editor, 1998. Catalog of fishes. Special Publication, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 3 volumi 2905 p.

Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. 2008. Salvelinus killinensis. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.3.

IUCN. 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. http://www.iucnredlist.org.

Kottelat, M., 1997. European freshwater fishes. Biologia 52, Suppl. 5:1-271.

Kottelat, M. & Freyhof, J. 2007. Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes. Publications Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland.

Maitland, P. S., Winfield, I. J., McCarthy, I. D. & Igoe, F. 2007. The status of Arctic Charr Salvelinus alpinus in Britain and Ireland. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 16: 6-19.

Regan, C. T. 1909. The char (Salvelinus) of Great Britain.

Regan, C. T. 1911. The freshwater fishes of the British Isles. Methuen, London.