Oncorhynchus nerka

Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum, 1792). Blueback, Red Salmon, or Sockeye Salmon . To 84 cm (33.1 in) TL (Coad 1995). Northern Japan and Sea of Okhotsk to Point Hope, Chukchi Sea, Alaska to Malibu Point, southern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2021
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Salmoniformes
Salmonidae
Oncorhynchus
Oncorhynchus nerka
Banks Island
Beaufort Sea
Chukchi
Chukchi Sea
Sachs Harbour
Alaska
Yukon
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5601574
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFA5FF8098EAF8C0F96130D0
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Summary:Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum, 1792). Blueback, Red Salmon, or Sockeye Salmon . To 84 cm (33.1 in) TL (Coad 1995). Northern Japan and Sea of Okhotsk to Point Hope, Chukchi Sea, Alaska to Malibu Point, southern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) with strays along Arctic Alaska and Canada coasts to Bathurst Inlet (Craig and Haldorson 1986) and northward to Sachs Harbour, Banks Island (Stephenson 2006); across Pacific Ocean north of about 40°N. Depth: surface to 83 m (272 ft) (Walker et al. 2007). Anadromous and freshwater populations. Range of the nonanadromous (freshwater) form, called Kokanee, not included here. Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 53, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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