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Oncorhynchus nerka
Description
Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum, 1792).
Blueback, Red Salmon, or Sockeye Salmon. To 84 cm (33.1 in) TL (Coad 1995). Northern Japan and Sea of Okhotsk to Point Hope, Chukchi Sea, Alaska to Malibu Point, southern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) with strays along Arctic Alaska and Canada coasts to Bathurst Inlet (Craig and Haldorson 1986) and northward to Sachs Harbour, Banks Island (Stephenson 2006); across Pacific Ocean north of about 40°N. Depth: surface to 83 m (272 ft) (Walker et al. 2007). Anadromous and freshwater populations. Range of the nonanadromous (freshwater) form, called Kokanee, not included here.
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
- nerka
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum, 1792) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Coad, B. W. (1995) Encyclopedia of Canadian Fishes. Canadian Museum of Nature and Canadian Sportfishing Productions Inc., Waterdown.
- Craig, P. & Haldorson, L. (1986) Pacific salmon in the North American Arctic. Arctic, 39, 2 - 7.
- 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 -