Pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)
Image source: Ernest Keeley | inaturalist.org
General data
- Main name: Pink salmon
- Local names: Humpback salmon, Humpie, Humpback salmon
- Climates: Continental, Subpolar
- Habitat: Anadromous
- Native: Asia, North America
- Introduced: Europe
- Distribution: Mackenzie, Bering Sea, Yana, Lena, Sacramento River, Mezen, View all... Northern Dvina, Olds River, Pasagshak River, Buskin River, Fraser River, Kitimat River, Kobuk River, Gulf of Alaska, Norwegian sea, St. Lawrence River, Kuskokwim River, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Arctic ocean
Classification
- Genus: Oncorhynchus - Pacific Salmons and Trouts
- Family: Salmonidae - Salmons and Trouts
- Order: Salmoniformes - Salmons and Trouts
- Class: Actinopteri - Ray-finned fishes
- Superclass: Osteichthyes - Bony fishes