Oncorhynchus

Rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Oncorhynchus is a in the Pacific region ( East Asia and western North America ) widespread genus of the family of salmon (Salmonidae ). The name of the genus is derived from the Greek onkos ( hook ) and rynchos (nose ) from. The species of the genus Oncorhynchus are either pure or fresh water fish, migratory fish, which, after their birth in rivers and streams in the sea and spend one or more years. Drag to the spawning migratory species back to their birth waters, but die as opposed to the members of the genus Salmo after spawning.

Oncorhynchus species are very important for the fisheries and exported in canned or smoked. Some species have been naturalized in other parts of the world, the rainbow trout, pink salmon, chum salmon and the silver salmon in the Europe.

Species

  • Gold trout ( Oncorhynchus aguabonita ) (Jordan, 1892)
  • Apache trout ( Oncorhynchus apache ) (Miller, 1972)
  • Oncorhynchus chrysogaster ( Needham & Gard, 1964)
  • Cutthroatforelle (Oncorhynchus clarkii ) ( Richardson, 1836) Yellowstone cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri )
  • Colorado cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii pleuriticus ) ( Cope, 1872)
  • Taiwanese masu salmon ( Oncorhynchus masou formosanus ) ( Jordan & Oshima, 1919)
  • Oncorhynchus masou macrostomus ( Günther, 1877)
  • Biwa trout ( Oncorhynchus masou rhodurus )

Swell

  • William N. Eschmeyer, Earl S. Herald: A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America. from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California ( Peterson Field Guide Series = The. Vol. 28). Houghton Mifflin, Boston MA 1983, ISBN 0-395-33188-9.
  • Peter S. Maitland, Keith Linsell: freshwater fish. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-440-10962-5.
  • Joseph S. Nelson: Fishes of the World. 4th edition. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7.
  • Oncorhynchus at Fishbase.org (English)
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