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Oncorhynchus keta

Description

Oncorhynchus keta (Walbaum, 1792).

Calico Salmon, Chum Salmon, or Dog Salmon. To 109 cm (42.9 in) TL (Salo in Groot and Margolis 1991). Arctic coasts of Siberia west to Laptev Sea and east across Alaskan and Canadian Arctic to Kugluktuk, Nunavut (Stephenson 2006); Korea and southern Japan to Beaufort Sea, Alaska to Del Mar, southern California near U.S. –Mexican border (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: at sea, surface to 253 m (830 ft) (Walker et al. 2007). 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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References

  • 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
  • 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 -