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(Redirected from Pacific salmon)
'''Oncorhynchus''' ('Pacific salmon' and 'Pacific trout') is a genus of in the family ''Salmonidae'' (salmon). The name of the genus is derived from the Greek ''onkos'' ("hook") and ''rynchos'' (nose")
Salmon and trout with ranges in the Pacific Ocean waters are members of the genus. Unlike species in the ''Salmo'' genus such as the Atlantic salmon, most ''Oncorhynchus'' species are anadromous (migratory) and die after spawning.
★ ''O. aguabonita'' - Golden trout
★ ''O. apache'' - Apache trout (Arizona trout)
★ ''O. chrysogaster'' - Mexican golden trout and as many as eight other species or subspecies in northwest Mexico, not yet formally named
★ ''O. clarkii'' - Cutthroat trout
★ ''O. gilae'' - Gila trout
★ ''O. gorbuscha'' - Pink salmon (humpback salmon)
★ ''O. ishikawai'' - Satsukimasu salmon
★ ''O. iwame'' - Iwame trout
★ ''O. keta'' - Chum salmon (dog salmon, Keta salmon, silverbrite salmon)
★ ''O. kisutch'' - Coho salmon, or locally, "silvers" or silver salmon
★ ''O. masou'' (sometimes ''O. masu'') - Seema (sima, sema, Japanese salmon, Masu salmon, cherry salmon)
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★ ''O. masou rhodurus'' - Biwa trout/salmon, subspecies endemic to Lake Biwa in Honshū, Japan)
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★ ''O. masou formosanum'' - Taiwanese salmon (Formosan salmon) endemic to Taiwan
★ ''O. mykiss'' Rainbow trout (steelhead, redband trout, ocean trout)
★ ''O. nerka'' - Sockeye salmon (red salmon, blueback salmon, kokanee)
★ ''O. rastrosus'' - extinct, 9-foot-long species that was extant from the late Miocene to the Pleistocene; "sabertooth salmon"
★ ''O. tshawytscha'' - Chinook salmon (king salmon, tyee salmon, Columbia River salmon, black salmon, chub salmon, hook bill salmon, winter salmon, spring salmon, and blackmouth)
★ Stearley, R.F. and Smoth, G. R. 1993. Phylogny of the Pacific trout and salmon (''Oncorhynchus'') and the genera of family Salmonidae. ''Transactions of the American Fisheries Society'' 122:1-33
★ Fishbase list of ''Oncorhynchus'' species
'''Oncorhynchus''' ('Pacific salmon' and 'Pacific trout') is a genus of in the family ''Salmonidae'' (salmon). The name of the genus is derived from the Greek ''onkos'' ("hook") and ''rynchos'' (nose")
Salmon and trout with ranges in the Pacific Ocean waters are members of the genus. Unlike species in the ''Salmo'' genus such as the Atlantic salmon, most ''Oncorhynchus'' species are anadromous (migratory) and die after spawning.
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Species
★ ''O. aguabonita'' - Golden trout
★ ''O. apache'' - Apache trout (Arizona trout)
★ ''O. chrysogaster'' - Mexican golden trout and as many as eight other species or subspecies in northwest Mexico, not yet formally named
★ ''O. clarkii'' - Cutthroat trout
★ ''O. gilae'' - Gila trout
★ ''O. gorbuscha'' - Pink salmon (humpback salmon)
★ ''O. ishikawai'' - Satsukimasu salmon
★ ''O. iwame'' - Iwame trout
★ ''O. keta'' - Chum salmon (dog salmon, Keta salmon, silverbrite salmon)
★ ''O. kisutch'' - Coho salmon, or locally, "silvers" or silver salmon
★ ''O. masou'' (sometimes ''O. masu'') - Seema (sima, sema, Japanese salmon, Masu salmon, cherry salmon)
★
★ ''O. masou rhodurus'' - Biwa trout/salmon, subspecies endemic to Lake Biwa in Honshū, Japan)
★
★ ''O. masou formosanum'' - Taiwanese salmon (Formosan salmon) endemic to Taiwan
★ ''O. mykiss'' Rainbow trout (steelhead, redband trout, ocean trout)
★ ''O. nerka'' - Sockeye salmon (red salmon, blueback salmon, kokanee)
★ ''O. rastrosus'' - extinct, 9-foot-long species that was extant from the late Miocene to the Pleistocene; "sabertooth salmon"
★ ''O. tshawytscha'' - Chinook salmon (king salmon, tyee salmon, Columbia River salmon, black salmon, chub salmon, hook bill salmon, winter salmon, spring salmon, and blackmouth)
References
★ Stearley, R.F. and Smoth, G. R. 1993. Phylogny of the Pacific trout and salmon (''Oncorhynchus'') and the genera of family Salmonidae. ''Transactions of the American Fisheries Society'' 122:1-33
★ Fishbase list of ''Oncorhynchus'' species
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