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Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Description
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum, 1792).
Chinook Salmon or King Salmon. To 160 cm (63 in) TL (Coad 1995). Northern Japan to Point Hope, Chukchi Sea, Alaska, with strays across northern Alaska to Coppermine River in Canada (Morrow 1980), to central Baja California at Bahía de Sebastian Vizcaino (27°54’N, 114°17’W) (De La Cruz-Agüero 1999). Depth: at sea, surface to 538 m (1,765 ft) (Courtney et al. 2019). 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 54, 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
- tshawytscha
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (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.
- Morrow, J. E. (1980) The Freshwater Fishes of Alaska. Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, Anchorage.
- De La Cruz-Aguero, J. (1999) A first Mexican record of the chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha. California Fish and Game, 85, 77 - 78.
- Courtney, M. B., Evans, M. D., Strom, J. F., Rikardsen, A. H. & Seitz, A. C. (2019) Behavior and thermal environment of Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha in the North Pacific Ocean, elucidated from pop-up satellite archival tags. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 102, 1039 - 1055. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10641 - 019 - 00889 - 0