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Mack Salmon Salmon: The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police: A human with a fishbowl for a head, Mack Salmon is really a fish who travels on top of a fake body. Marlin Clownfish: Finding Nemo: Nemo's father Milo Siamese fighting fish: Fish Hooks: An adventurous fish who is a self-proclaimed "party-guy". Muddy Mudskipper: Mudskipper: Ren ...
The Salmon story figures prominently in The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, which recounts the early adventures of Fionn mac Cumhaill. In the story, an ordinary salmon ate nine hazelnuts that fell into the Well of Wisdom (an Tobar Segais) from nine hazel trees that surrounded the well. By this act, the salmon gained all the world's knowledge.
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.
An Atlantic salmon netted in 1960 in Scotland, in the estuary of the river Hope, weighed 49.44 kg (109.0 lb), the heaviest recorded in all available literature. Another netted in 1925 in Norway measured 160.65 cm (63.25 in) in length, the longest Atlantic salmon on record.
English name: Swedish name: Habitat Occurrence Red List status; Anguillidae: Anguilla anguilla: European eel Ål: Fresh, marine and brackish water Native and common Critically endangered (CR) Congridae: Conger conger: European conger Havsål: Marine Native and common Not evaluated Nemichthyidae: Nemichthys scolopaceus: Slender snipe eel ...
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".
In most cases, the names are "one-off" Latinized forms produced by adding the genitive endings -ii or -i for a man, -ae for a woman, or -orum in plural, to a family name, thereby creating a Latinized form. For example, a name such as Macrochelys temminckii notionally represents a latinization of the family name of Coenraad Jacob Temminck to ...
Salmon is a masculine given name which may refer to: Salmon (biblical figure), a descendant of Abraham and ancestor of David; Salmon Brown, two people related to American abolitionist John Brown: Salmon Brown (1802–1833), his younger brother; Salmon Brown (1836–1919), his youngest son; Salmon P. Chase (1808–1873), American politician and ...