Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum, 1792)

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, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 53

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5601574

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6-FFA5-FF80-98EA-F8C0F96130D0

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Plazi

scientific name

Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum, 1792)
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Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum, 1792) View in CoL .

Blueback, Red Salmon, or Sockeye Salmon. To 84 cm (33.1 in) TL ( Coad 1995). Northern Japan and Sea of Okhotsk to Point Hope, Chukchi Sea, Alaska to Malibu Point, southern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) with strays along Arctic Alaska and Canada coasts to Bathurst Inlet ( Craig and Haldorson 1986) and northward to Sachs Harbour, Banks Island ( Stephenson 2006); across Pacific Ocean north of about 40°N. Depth: surface to 83 m (272 ft) ( Walker et al. 2007). Anadromous and freshwater populations. Range of the nonanadromous (freshwater) form, called Kokanee, not included here.

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