Oncorhynchus
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Oncorhynchus est genus piscis familiae Salmonidarum, qui salmones et tructas fluvios ad oceanum Pacificum habitantes continet. Nomen generis formatum est ex vocabulis Graecis ὄγκος 'uncus' et ῥύγχος 'rostrum', quae ad maxillas hamatas marium tempore ovorum geniturae spectant.
Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
Female (above) and male in mating season
Note male with hooked jaws
Female (above) and male in mating season
Note male with hooked jaws
Classis : Actinopterygii
Ordo : Salmoniformes
Familia : Salmonidae
Subfamilia : Salmoninae
Genus : Oncorhynchus
Suckley, 1861
Ordo : Salmoniformes
Familia : Salmonidae
Subfamilia : Salmoninae
Genus : Oncorhynchus
Suckley, 1861
Palaeontologia
Late Miocene - Recent
Subdivisiones: Species
Species typica