name: Pacific Salmon

flavor_db_name_variants: pacific salmon

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Pacific salmon

id: 518

name_scientific: Oncorhynchus

description: Oncorhynchus is a genus of fish in the family Salmonidae; it contains the Pacific salmon and Pacific trout. The name of the genus is derived from the Greek onkos ("hook") and rynchos ("nose"), in reference to the hooked jaws of males in the mating season (the "kype"). Salmon and trout with native ranges in waters draining to the Pacific Ocean are members of the genus. Their range extends from Beringia southwards, roughly to Japan in the west and Mexico to the east. In North America, some subspecies of O. clarki are native in the Rocky Mountains and Great Basin, while others are native to the Rio Grande and western tributaries of the Mississippi River Basin which drain to the Gulf of Mexico, rather than to the Pacific. Several species of Oncorhynchus have been introduced into non-native waters around the globe establishing self-sustaining wild populations.

itis_id: 161974

wikipedia_id: Pacific_salmon

picture_file_name: 529.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 58659

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:32:42.000Z

legacy_id: 556

food_group: Aquatic foods

food_subgroup: Fishes

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:46.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:26.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 8016

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00518