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

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.