Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum 1792)
- 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
- Oncorhynchus
- species
- Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
description
Chinook Salmon or King Salmon. To 160 cm (63 in) TL (Coad 1995). Northern Japan to Point Hope, Chukchi Sea, Alaska, with strays across northern Alaska to Coppermine River in Canada (Morrow 1980), to central Baja California at Bahía de Sebastian Vizcaino (27 ° 54 ’ N, 114 ° 17 ’ W) (De La Cruz-Agüero 1999). Depth: at sea, surface to 538 m (1,765 ft) (Courtney et al. 2019). Anadromous.