Oncorhynchus keta (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 keta
description
Calico Salmon, Chum Salmon, or Dog Salmon. To 109 cm (42.9 in) TL (Salo in Groot and Margolis 1991). Arctic coasts of Siberia west to Laptev Sea and east across Alaskan and Canadian Arctic to Kugluktuk, Nunavut (Stephenson 2006); Korea and southern Japan to Beaufort Sea, Alaska to Del Mar, southern California near U. S. – Mexican border (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: at sea, surface to 253 m (830 ft) (Walker et al. 2007). Anadromous.
Name
- Homonyms
- Oncorhynchus keta (Walbaum 1792)