''Salmo opimus'' is a
salmonid
Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish that constitutes the only currently extant family in the order Salmoniformes . It includes salmon (both Atlantic and Pacific species), trout (both ocean-going and landlocked), chars, freshwater whitefis ...
fish in the genus ''
Salmo''. It was described by Davut Turan,
Maurice Kottelat and Semih Engin in 2012, and is known from
Turkey. The
type locality was the Alara Stream in
Gündoğmuş,
Antalya Province. The
species epithet, "''opimus''" (meaning "opulent" in
Latin) refers to the large body size of the adults.
[Turan, D., Kottelat, M. & Engin, S. (2012): The trouts of the Mediterranean drainages of southern Anatolia, Turkey, with description of three new species (Teleostei: Salmonidae). ''Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 23 (3): 219-236.'']
References
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opimus
Taxa named by Davut Turan
Taxa named by Maurice Kottelat
Taxa named by Semih Engin
Fish described in 2012
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