Salmonidae

pink salmon

Oncorhynchus gorbuscha

Seventy Six Centimeters Trout of Asian Waters

• Pink
• Red
• Tropical
• Estuary
• Circumpolar Arctic
• Regional distribution
• Pacific Ocean
• East Asia
• North America
• Polar regions
• Fusiform
• Compressed cross-section
• Large
• Tropical fish

Pink salmon or humpback salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) is a species of euryhaline ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. It is the type species of the genus Oncorhynchus (Pacific salmon), and is the smallest and most abundant of the seven officially recognized species of salmon. The species' scientific name is based on the Russian common name for this species gorbúša (горбуша), which literally means humpie.