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Salmonidae
Coho salmon
Oncorhynchus kisutch
Trout beneath the Pacific Ocean
The coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) is a species of anadromous fish in the salmon family and one of the six Pacific salmon species. Coho salmon are also known as silver salmon (or "silvers") and is often sold as medium red salmon. "Coho" was borrowed into English from the word k̓ʷə́xʷəθ, the species' name in the downriver dialect of the Halkomelem language spoken in Vancouver.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Salmons and Trout
- Family
- Salmonidae
- Genus
- Oncorhynchus
- Maximum length
- 108 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- North Pacific: distributed from the Anadyr River in Russia south towards Hokkaido, Japan, and from Point Hope in Alaska southwards to Chamalu Bay in Baja California, Mexico.

