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Salmonidae
Chinook salmon
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Black gums returning from sea to natal rivers
- Gray
- Silver
- Temperate
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
- Temperate fish
Gray
Temperate
Regional distribution
Fusiform
LargeChinook salmon is a freshwater fish that lives in rivers and cold-water lakes. It is known for black gums returning from sea to natal rivers.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Salmons and Trout
- Family
- Salmonidae
- Genus
- Oncorhynchus
- Maximum length
- 150 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Habitat
- Rivers and cold-water lakes
- Body shape
- Fusiform
- Diet
- Carnivorous
- Distribution
- Cold waters of the Northern Hemisphere
Class
Family
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