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Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum, 1792) 
AphiaID: 158075

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 chouicha Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 (misspelling)
Oncorhynchus cooperi (Suckley, 1861)
Oncorhynchus tschawytscha (Walbaum, 1792) (misspelling)
Oncorhynchus tshawytsha (Walbaum, 1792) (misspelling)
Salmo cooperi Suckley, 1861
Salmo orientalis Pallas, 1814
Salmo quinnat Richardson, 1836
Salmo richardi Suckley, 1861 (misspelling)
Salmo richardii Suckley, 1861
Salmo tschawytscha Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Salmo tschawytscha Walbaum, 1792 (misspelling)
Salmo tshawytscha Walbaum, 1792
Salmo warreni Suckley, 1861
Sources  original description: 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[details]

basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

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

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch Californische zalm  [details]
Dutch Chinook (from synonym)  [details]
Dutch Chinook zalm  [details]
Dutch Pacific koningszalm  [details]
English Chinook salmon  [details]
English king salmon  [details]
English spring salmon  [details]
French saumon chinook  [details]
French saumon quinnat  [details]
French saumon royal du Pacifique  [details]
German Pazifik Köningslachs  [details]
Spanish salmon real  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution British Columbia [details]
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details]
Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia [details]
FAO fishing area 67 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North East Pacific [details]
North Pacific [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
North West Territories [details]
Host of  Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Krøyer, 1837) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus luciopercarum Henderson, 1926 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Paeonodes nemaformis Hewitt, 1969 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaea cyprinacea Linnaeus, 1758 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Salmincola californiensis (Dana, 1852) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
To Barcode of Life (246 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (77 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (15672 nucleotides; 765 proteins)
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Feeds on insects, crustaceans and fishes [details]

Distribution: stocked in rivers draining in to the Gulf of Maine [details]

Habitat: Migrate from natal rivers to the sea as fry where they may occupy depths of 200 m, return upriver to spawn. [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]

Importance: Scientific- Commercial, gamefish, aquaculture [details]

Introduction: This species has been introduced or released in Dutch waters. [details]

Predators: Birds, mammals and fishes, such as the sea bass [details]

Reproduction: Adults migrate up natal rivers to spawn once per lifetime [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158075
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-25 08:24:16Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (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=158075 on 2013-06-19
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