Oncorhynchus

Oncorhynchus

Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Osteichthyes Order: Salmoniformes Family: Salmonidae Genus: Oncorhynchus

Oncorhynchus (Pacific salmon and Pacific trout) is a genus of in the family Salmonidae (salmon).

Species

O. gilae apache - Apache trout (Arizona trout)
O. chrysogaster - Mexican golden trout and as many as eight other species or subspecies in northwest Mexico, not yet formally named
O. clarkii - Cutthroat trout
O. gilae - Gila trout
O. gorbuscha - Pink salmon (humpback salmon)
O. ishikawai - Satsukimasu salmon
O. iwame - Iwame trout
O. keta - Chum salmon (dog salmon, Keta salmon, silverbrite salmon)
O. kisutch - Coho salmon, or locally, "silvers" or silver salmon
O. masou (sometimes O. masu) - Seema (sima, sema, Japanese salmon, Masu salmon, cherry salmon)
- O. masou rhodurus - Biwa trout/salmon, subspecies endemic to Lake Biwa in Honshū, Japan)
- O. masou formosanum - Taiwanese salmon (Formosan salmon) endemic to Taiwan
O. mykiss Rainbow trout (steelhead, redband trout, ocean trout)
O. mykiss aguabonita - Golden trout
O. nerka - Sockeye salmon (red salmon, blueback salmon, kokanee)
O. rastrosus - extinct, 9-foot-long species that was extant from the late Miocene to the Pleistocene; "sabertooth salmon"
O. tshawytscha - Chinook salmon (king salmon, tyee salmon, Columbia River salmon, black salmon, chub salmon, hook bill salmon, winter salmon, spring salmon, and blackmouth)