Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (i.e. pink salmon) is the smallest and most abundant of the five species of Pacific salmon. Physical Description: In the ocean, pink salmon are bright silver fish. After returning to their spawning streams, their coloring changes to pale grey on the back with yellowish-white belly (although some turn an overall dull green color). As with all salmon, in addition to the dorsal fin, they also have an adipose fin. The fish is characterized by a white mouth with black gums, no teeth on the tongue, large oval-shaped black spots on the back, a v-shaped tail, and an anal fin with 13-17 soft rays. During their spawning migration, males develop a pronounced humped back, hence their nickname "humpies". Pink salmon average 4.8 pounds (2.2 kg) in weight. The maximum recorded size was 30 inches (76 cm) and 15 pounds (6.8 kg). Range: The native range of the species is in the Pacific and Arctic coastal waters and rivers, from the Sacramento River in northern California to the Mackenzie River in Canada; and in the west from the Lena River in Siberia to Korea and Honshu in Japan. In North America pink salmon spawn from the Mackenzie River in the Arctic to as far south as tributaries of Puget Sound, Washington, although they were also reported in the San Lorenzo River near Santa Cruz, California in 1915 and the Sacramento River in northern California in the 1950s. In 2013 a new record for the southernmost extent of spawning pink salmon was published for the Salinas River. In the fall of 2017 a dozen pink salmon were counted in Lagunitas Creek about 25 miles (40 km) north of San Francisco, California.

O. gorbuscha

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The class which contains all instances of Oncorhynchus gorbuscha.

NCBI:txid8017 ITIS: 161975 (https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=161975#null) GBIF: 5204037 (https://www.gbif.org/species/5204037) EOL: 46563135 (https://eol.org/pages/46563135) COL: 74N5S (https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/74N5S) Wikidata: Q673380 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q673380)

Oncorhynchus gorbuscha

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Oncorhynchus gorbuscha