Oncorhynchus nerka

• 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

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