Breeding male coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)

Description Oncorhynchus kisutch Coho Salmon Breeding Male
Date 1907
Source Scanned from plates in Evermann, Barton Warren; Goldsborough, Edmund Lee (1907) The Fishes of Alaska, Washington, D.C.: Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of Fisheries
Author A. Hoen and Co.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coho_Salmon_Breeding_Male.jpg

The coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch; Karuk: achvuun) is a species of anadromous fish in the salmon family, one of the several species of Pacific salmon. Coho salmon are also known as silver salmon or "silvers". The scientific species name is based on the Russian common name kizhuch (кижуч). Order: Salmoniformes, Family: Salmonidae, Genus: Oncorhynchus, Species: Oncorhynchus kisutch (Walbaum, 1792).