Pacific salmon
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Rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ) |
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| Suckley , 1861 |
The Pacific salmon ( Oncorhynchus ) are a species of the salmon fish family (Salmonidae) that is widespread in the Pacific region ( East Asia and western North America ). The name of the genus is derived from the Greek onkos (hook) and rhynchos (nose).
The species of the genus are either pure freshwater fish or migratory fish , which after their birth move into the sea in rivers and streams and spend one or more years there. To spawn, the migratory species move back to their native waters, but, unlike the members of the genus Salmo , die after spawning.
As edible fish, Pacific salmon are very important for the fishery and are exported canned or smoked. Some species have been naturalized in other parts of the world, the rainbow trout , the pink salmon , the ketal salmon and the silver salmon also in Europe.
species
- Golden trout ( Oncorhynchus aguabonita ( Jordan , 1892))
- Apache trout ( Oncorhynchus apache ( Miller , 1972))
- Oncorhynchus chrysogaster ( Needham & Gard , 1964)
- Cutthroat trout ( Oncorhynchus clarkii ( Richardson , 1836))
- Oncorhynchus gilae ( Miller , 1950)
- Pink salmon ( Oncorhynchus gorbuscha ( Walbaum , 1792))
- Oncorhynchus iwame Kimura & Nakamura , 1961
- Oncorhynchus kawamurae Jordan & McGregor , 1925
- Ketal salmon ( Oncorhynchus keta ( Walbaum , 1792))
- Silver salmon ( Oncorhynchus kisutch ( Walbaum , 1792))
- Masu salmon ( Oncorhynchus masou ( Brevoort , 1856))
- Rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ( Walbaum , 1792))
- Sockeye salmon ( Oncorhynchus nerka ( Walbaum , 1792))
- Biwa trout ( Oncorhynchus rhodurus Jordan & McGregor , 1925)
- King salmon ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ( Walbaum , 1792))
swell
- William N. Eschmeyer, Earl S. Herald: A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America. from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California (= The Peterson Field Guide Series. Vol. 28). Houghton Mifflin, Boston MA 1983, ISBN 0-395-33188-9 .
- Peter S. Maitland, Keith Linsell: Freshwater Fish. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-440-10962-5 .
- Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World. 4th edition. John Wiley & Sons, New York NY 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .
- Oncorhynchus on Fishbase.org (English)
