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