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Taimens
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Taimens

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.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species

Huchen

speciesHucho hucho

Siberian Taimen

speciesHucho taimen

Sichuan Taimen

speciesHucho bleekeri

Korean Taimen

speciesHucho ishikawae

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Taimens in History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds

History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds

Conrad Gessner · 1586 · p.681

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 88972.