Animalia > Chordata > Salmoniformes > Salmonidae > Oncorhynchus > Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (chinook salmon or king salmon; Black salmon; Chinook; Chinook salmon; Chub salmon; King salmon; Pacific salmon; Quinnat; Quinnat salmon; Tyee; Spring salmon; Spring; Smilie; Salmon; Pickled salmon; Locks; Lox; Kippered salmon; King; Blackmouth; Chinook zalm)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is the largest species in the Pacific salmon genus Oncorhynchus. The common name refers to the Chinookan peoples. Other vernacular names for the species include king salmon, Quinnat salmon, spring salmon, and Tyee salmon. The scientific species name is based on the Russian common name chavycha (чавыча).
View Wikipedia Record: Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

Attributes

Adult Length [2]  4.92 feet (150 cm)
Brood Dispersal [2]  Hidden
Brood Egg Substrate [2]  Lithophils (rock-gravel)
Brood Guarder [2]  No
Litter Size [2]  17,000
Maximum Longevity [2]  9 years
Migration [1]  Anadromous
Water Biome [1]  Pelagic, Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams, Coastal
Adult Weight [3]  74.45 lbs (33.77 kg)
Diet [1]  Carnivore, Planktivore
Female Maturity [2]  4 years
Male Maturity [3]  4 years

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Alaska
Oregon

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♦ 5NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7Food Web Relationships of Northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca : a Synthesis of the Available Knowledge, Charles A. Simenstad, Bruce S. Miller, Carl F. Nyblade, Kathleen Thornburgh, and Lewis J. Bledsoe, EPA-600 7-29-259 September 1979
♦ 8Diving depths, diet, and underwater foraging of Rhinoceros Auklets in British Columbia, Alan E. Burger, Rory P. Wilson, Don Garnier and Marie-Pierre T. Wilson, Canadian Journal of Zoology Vol. 71: 2528-2540 (1993)
♦ 9Predation by Salmon Sharks (Lamna ditropis) on Pacific Salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) in the North Pacific Ocean, Kazuya Nagasawa, NPAFC Bulletin No. 1 pp. 419-433 (1998)
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Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0