Species: Oncorhynchus kisutch pop. 5
Coho Salmon - Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Actinopterygii
Order
Salmoniformes
Family
Salmonidae
Genus
Oncorhynchus
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Classification
Informal Taxonomy
<p>Animals, Vertebrates - Fishes - Bony Fishes - Salmon and Trouts</p>
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Actinopterygii - Salmoniformes - Salmonidae - Oncorhynchus - Population 5 represents an evolutionarily significant unit (ESU) defined by the National Marine Fisheries Service as a population that: 1) is reproductively isolated from other conspecific population units, and 2) represents an important component in the evolutionary legacy of the biological species (National Marine Fisheries Service 1995). See NMFS (1995) for further information on how this element was defined as an evolutionarily significant unit (ESU) under the Endangered Species Act.
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
A salmon, not more than one meter long, that has pink or red sides during the breeding season.
Habitat Type Description
Freshwater
Migration
<p>false - false - true</p>
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G4T3Q
Global Status Last Reviewed
1998-09-03
Global Status Last Changed
1998-09-03
Other Status
<p>SC - SC: Species of concern - 2004-04-15</p>
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Spawns in streams along a portion of the Pacific coast of North America, including drainages of Puget Sound and Hood Canal, the eastern Olympic Peninsula (east of Salt Creek), and the Strait of Georgia from the eastern side of Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland (excluding the upper Fraser River). Oceanic distribution includes waters off the Pacific Northwest (National Marine Fisheries Service 1995).