1. a marine and freshwater food fish, Salmo salar, of the family Salmonidae, having pink flesh, inhabiting waters off the North Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America near the mouths of large rivers, which it enters to spawn. 2. any of several salmonoid food fishes of the genus On...
The genusOncorhynchusis comprised of a dozen species of Pacific salmon and trout, found from S California to Alaska. Pacific salmon are the most important commercial species. Canning centers are located on the Columbia River and on Puget Sound and in British Columbia, Siberia, and N Japan. The...
salmon, originally, the large fish now usually called the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), though more recently the name has been applied to similar fishes of the same family (Salmonidae), especially the Pacific salmon, which constitute the genus Oncorhynchus. The six species of Pacific salmon (On...
such that those species with 2n = 60 werehexaploid(6x), 2n = 80 was 8x, and the grayling (genusThymalus) a remarkable 10x. Similarly,Kupka (1948)suggested that whitefish (Coregonusspp.) had a basic chromosome number ofx= 18, making species with 2n = 70 or 72tetraploids. In neither ca...
noun(Zoöl.)Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon (Salmo salar) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. Seequinnat....
Salvelinus, sal-ve-lī′nus, n. a genus of Salmonid, the chars. FromProject Gutenberg The Salmonid are found in the rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean. FromProject Gutenberg The species of Salmonid call particularly our attention, from the minuteness of the characters upon which their disti...
Genus and species: Includes Oncorhynchus kisutch (coho salmon), O. gorbuscha (pink salmon), O. nerka (sockeye salmon), O. tschawytscha (chinook salmon); Salmo gairdneri (brook trout), S. salar (Atlantic salmon), S. trutta (brown trout); Salvelinus fontinalis (speckled trout), S. namaycu...
Coho, (Oncorhynchus kisutch), species of salmon, family Salmonidae, prized for food and sport. The coho may weigh up to 16 kg (35 pounds) and is recognized by the small spots on the back and upper tail-fin lobe. Young coho stay in fresh water for about o
The disease is chronic and can occur in combination with other infections. Other strains of the genus Francisella previously isolated from Atlantic salmon in Chile are F. noatunensis whereas F. asiatica has been isolated from tilapia and other warm water fish (Birkbeck et al., 2010; Mikalsen ...
These results indicate the potential utility of microsatellite markers developed for one species, for both congenerics and species within a closely related genus.doi:10.1046/j.1471-8286.2002.00129.xKevin S. WilliamsonGenomic Variation Laboratory, Department of Animal Science, 2403 Meyer Hall, ...