Salmo salar Linnaeus 1758
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Salmoniformes
- family
- Salmonidae
- genus
- Salmo
- species
- Salmo salar
description
Atlantic Salmon. To 150 cm (59.1 in) TL (Coad 1995). Native to both sides of North Atlantic Ocean; introduced via net-pen farming to Washington and British Columbia in the 1980 s (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Escapees recorded and widespread from Puget Sound (Wayne Palsson, pers. comm. to M. L.) northward to south-eastern Alaska (Wing et al. 1992) to Bering Sea near Pribilof Islands (Brodeur and Busby 1998). Natural reproduction of Salmo salar in the Tsitika River, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, has been documented (Volpe et al. 2000). Anadromous.
Name
- Homonyms
- Salmo salar Linnaeus 1758