Arripis trutta

Arripis trutta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Arripidae
Genus:	Arripis
Species:	A. trutta
Binomial name
Arripis trutta (J. R. Forster, 1801)
Synonyms[1]
Sciaena trutta Forster, 1801 Perca trutta Bosc, 1802 Perca marginata Cuvier, 1828 Arripis salar (Richardson, 1839) Centropristes sapidissimus Richardson, 1842 Centropristes tasmanicus Hombron & Jacquinot, 1853

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, bay trout, blackback salmon (or just "black back"), buck salmon (or "buck"), cocky salmon, colonial salmon, 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. All Arripis species belong to the family Arripidae of the order Perciformes.