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Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
Description
Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Walbaum, 1792).
Humpback Salmon or Pink Salmon. To 76 cm (2.5 ft) TL (Hart 1973). Northern Siberia to western Canada; North Korea and Japan to Beaufort Sea coast of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) and Canada (westwards to Sachs Harbor, Banks Island) (Stephenson 2006), and south to La Jolla, California; throughout North Pacific and Bering Sea north of about 40°N (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Successfully introduced in upper Great Lakes, and rivers of Norway and Russia (Pietsch and Orr 2019). Depth: maximum to 74 m (243 ft) (Walker et al. 2007); based on a bottom trawl collection, perhaps to 118 m (387 ft) (NWFSC-FRAM). Anadromous.
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Salmonidae
- Genus
- Oncorhynchus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Salmoniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Walbaum
- Species
- gorbuscha
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Walbaum, 1792) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Hart, J. L. (1973) Pacific Fishes of Canada. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 180.
- Stephenson, S. A. (2006) A review of the occurrence of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) in the Canadian Western Artic. Arctic, 59, 37 - 46. https: // doi. org / 10.14430 / arctic 362
- Pietsch, T. W. & Orr, J. W. (2019) Fishes of the Salish Sea. University of Washington Press, Seattle.
- Walker, R. V., Sviridov, V. V., Uraua, S. & T. Azumaya. (2007) Spatio-temporal variation in vertical distributions of Pacific salmon in the ocean. Bulletin of the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission, 4, 193 -