Salmon is fish that belongs to the family Salmonidae. It is closely related to trout and char. There are nine commercially important species of salmon that can be found in the Atlantic (Atlantic salmon, genus Salmo) and Pacific oceans (eight species, gen
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...
Results We describe here the x-cell parasite as a new species in a new genus, Salmoxcellia vastator n. gen., n. sp. Phylogenetic analyses placed Salmoxcellia n. gen. together with Gadixcellia among the xcelliids, a group of perkinsozoan alveolates. The new genus and species were ...
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 genusOncorhynchus...
The speckled, or brook, trout of the E United States, for example, is a Salvelinus and should more properly be called a char, as similar fishes in Europe are. The brown trout and many other species called trouts are members of the genus Salmo. The only native North American species of ...
Steelhead reside exclusively in the ocean until it is time to spawn, while some salmon species reside in freshwater locations. ©FedBul/Shutterstock.com There are only a few noticeable differences between steelhead vs salmon. Belonging to the same family and even the same genus (save the Atlant...
Family-, genus- and species-level biomarkers are provided in the Supplementary Table S4. The class-level biomarkers of Proteobacteria in FW belonged to Alpha- and Betaproteobacteria. In contrast, Gammaproteobacteria was the most abundant class in SW.4W; its dominance was driven by the highly ...
Previous phylogenetic analyses of the fishes belonging to the genus Oncorhynchus based on mitochondrial DNA data have produced conflicting trees. This is especially true with respect to the relationships among the three most derived Pacific salmon species, the pink salmon ( Oncorhynchus gorbuscha ), soc...
The facts about the Atlantic salmon’s appearance distinguish it from other salmon species. Its size makes it the largest in its genus, Salmo. After two years at sea, it measures 28-32in long and weighs 7.9-12lbs on average. But after four years, it can be much larger. The heaviest ...
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...