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Salmonidae (/ s æ l ˈ m ɒ n ɪ d iː /, lit. ' salmon-like ' ) is a family of ray-finned fish that constitutes the only currently extant family in the order Salmoniformes ( / s æ l ˈ m ɒ n ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / , lit. "salmon-shaped"), consisting of 11 extant genera and over 200 species collectively known as " salmonids " or " salmonoids ".
Oncorhynchus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae, native to coldwater tributaries of the North Pacific basin. The genus contains twelve extant species, namely six species of Pacific salmon and six species of Pacific trout, all of which are migratory (either anadromous or potamodromous) mid-level predatory fish that display natal homing and ...
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Salmon (/ ˈ s æ m ən /; pl.: salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.
The name Salmo derives from the Latin salmō, meaning salmon. The vast majority of the Salmo species are actually trout , except the Atlantic salmon, which along with six Pacific species from the genus Oncorhynchus (also from the subfamily Salmoninae, but of a different tribe) constitute the only seven officially recognized species of salmon.
The masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou), also known as masu (Japanese: マス, lit. 'salmon trout') or cherry trout (桜鱒, サクラマス, sakura masu) in Japan, [1] [2] is a species of salmonid belonging to the genus Oncorhynchus, found in the North Pacific along Northeast/East Asian coasts from the Russian Far East (Primorsky, Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin and Kuril Islands) to south through ...
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