Fish of the Salmo genus of the Salmoninae subfamily of the Salmonidae family of the Salmoniformes order of the Protacanthopterygii superorder.
(Summer trout. Photo by © M. Kottelat, J. Freyhof. ittiofauna.org)
Summer trout (Salmo aphelios) was first described in 1997 by the Swiss ichthyologist Maurice Kottelat. The recorded maximum length is 40 cm. It feeds on zooplankton and small fishes. It prefers to swim near the bottom.
It’s the endemic of the eastern part of Lake Ohrid (Albania, Macedonia). It’s a rare species.
Names of summer trout (Salmo aphelios) in other languages are as follows:
Korani i verës (Albanian), Trota estiva del lago di Ocrida (Italian).