Salmonidae

Caspian salmon

Salmo ciscaucasicus

One Hundred Thirty Centimeters Trout of Asian Waters

• Tropical
• Coastal
• Regional distribution
• Freshwater fish
• West Asia
• Fusiform
• Large
• Tropical fish

Salmo ciscaucasicus, the Caspian salmon or Terek trout, is a salmonid fish endemic to the Caspian Sea and its inflowing rivers. It was described in 1967 originally as a subspecies of Salmo trutta. S. ciscaucasicus lives on the western shore of the lake from northern Azerbaijan to the Ural River, while the main breeding river is the Terek.