Chum salmon
Oncorhynchus keta (Walbaum, 1792)
Also calledChum (spa) · Chum zalm (nld) · Chumlachs (deu) · Hundlax (swe) · Hundslachs (deu) · Keta (swe) · Keta (pol) · Keta (spa) · Ketalachs (deu) · Ketalaks (dan) · Ketalaks (nor) · Ketlasis (lav) · Koiralohi (fin) · Rode kaviaar (nld)
First described in: Walbaum, J. J. 1792. Petri artedi Sueci genera piscium. in quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis. Redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52. Ichthyologiae. A.F. Rose, Grypeswaldiae. No. Pars iii: 1-723, pls. 1-3.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
Notes
This species was recorded from lotic environments in our surveys.
Ichthyofauna of the Kubo, Tochikura, and Ichinono river systems (Kitakami River drainage, northern Japan), with a comparison of predicted and surveyed species richness
description
Taxonomy. Original description: Salmo keta Walbaum, 1792: 72 [Rivers of Kamchatka, Russia. No types known]. Revisions. None. Illustrations. None. Distribution in Iran. — Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea. — Distribution in Ecoregions: 434 - Kura-South Caspian Drainages. Status in Iran. [Exotic]. — Azad mahi keta. — Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020); Eagderi et al. (2022) but needs confirmation by specimens for Iran. — Iran material: None. Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).
Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022)
description
Calico Salmon, Chum Salmon, or Dog Salmon. To 109 cm (42.9 in) TL (Salo in Groot and Margolis 1991). Arctic coasts of Siberia west to Laptev Sea and east across Alaskan and Canadian Arctic to Kugluktuk, Nunavut (Stephenson 2006); Korea and southern Japan to Beaufort Sea, Alaska to Del Mar, southern California near U. S. – Mexican border (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: at sea, surface to 253 m (830 ft) (Walker et al. 2007). Anadromous.
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Introduced species vector dispersal
United Kingdom part of the Celtic Sea (Marine Region) Aquaculture: accidental
World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5204014.