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Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Walbaum, 1792) 
AphiaID: 127182

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Salmoniformes (Order) > Salmonidae (Family) > Salmoninae (Subfamily) > Oncorhynchus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Oncorhynchus Suckley, 1861
Synonymised
taxa
  Oncorhynchus scouleri (Richardson, 1836)
Salmo gorbuscha Walbaum, 1792
Salmo scouleri Richardson, 1836 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details]

additional source: Welshman, D., S. Kohler, J. Black and L. Van Guelpen. 2003. An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes. , available online at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [details]

additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

additional source: Walbaum, J.J. (Ed.) (1792). Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium in quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis: redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52: Ichthyologiae pars 3. Ant. Ferdin. Röse: Grypeswaldiae. 723, 3 plates pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 69 [details]


from synonym: Richardson, J. (1836). The Fish. in Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the zoology of the northern parts of British America.: containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions, under the command of Sir John Franklin, R.N. Part 3, pp i-xv + 1-327, Pls. 74-97. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Danish pukkellaks  [details]
Dutch roze Pacific zalm  [details]
Dutch roze zalm  [details]
English humpback salmon  [details]
English pink salmon  [details]
French saumon à bosse  [details]
French saumon rose  [details]
French saumon rosé  [details]
French saumon rose du Pacifique  [details]
German Pazifik Rosa-Lachs  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål pukkellaks  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk pukkellaks  [details]
Spanish salmon roseado  [details]
Swedish puckellax  [details]
Welsh eog cefngrwm  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Arctic Ocean [details]
Baltic sea [details]
British Columbia [details]
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details]
Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 67 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North East Pacific [details]
North Pacific [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
North West Territories [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Host of  Ergasilus briani Markevich, 1933 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Krøyer, 1837) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus clemensi Parker & Margolis, 1964 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus wilsoni Markevich, 1933 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Parabomolochus cuneatus (Fraser, 1920) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Salmincola californiensis (Dana, 1852) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
To Barcode of Life (66 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (159 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To GenBank (297 nucleotides; 251 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Feeds on insects, copepods, tunicates, amphipods, euphausiids and fishes  [details]

Distribution: Native of the North Pacific, introduced into the Atlantic regions of Maine and Newfoundland. [details]

Habitat: anadromous species; born in the river, migrates to sea as adults and returns to spawn  [details]

Habitat: benthic [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Importance: Scientific- Highly commercial, gamefish [details]

Predators: Birds, marine and freshwater mammals and large fish  [details]

Reproduction: External fertilization. Spawning , upriver, occurs between June and September; between 1200 and 1800 eggs laid,into several redds, followed by death  [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127182
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Walbaum, 1792). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127182 on 2013-05-24
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