Australian salmon

Arripis trutta

Salmon of the Pacific Ocean

Tropical
Southern Hemisphere
Regional distribution
Pacific Ocean
Oceania
Fusiform
Compressed cross-section
Large
Tropical fish

Arripis trutta, known as the Australian salmon in Australia and as kahawai in New Zealand, is a South Pacific marine fish and one of the four extant species within the genus Arripis, native to the cooler waters around the southeastern Australian coasts and the New Zealand coastline. Other common names for this species include Eastern Australian salmon, Eastern Australian mackerel, bay trout, blackback salmon (or just "black back"), buck salmon (or "buck"), cocky salmon, colonial salmon, woolley Judith, newfish and salmon trout. Although it is referred to as "salmon" in Australian English and its species epithet trutta is Latin for trout, it is not related to true salmons or trouts, which belong to the family Salmonidae of the order Salmoniformes.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Mackerels, Tunas, and Allies
Family: Arripidae
Genus: Arripis
Maximum length: 89 cm
Body shape: fusiform
Distribution: Southwest Pacific: southern Australia (including Tasmania, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island), usually Brisbane to Western Victoria, rarely to Western Australia; and New Zealand (including Chatham and Kermadec Islands).

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