Product Description
This Male chum salmon, 5 1/2" figure includes hand painted features to give it realistic details that are true to natural anatomy. This figure is considered a museum quality replica. Highest Quality Natural Rubber.
Male chum salmon spawning coloration includes an overall olive with vertical bars of darker green and purple, which provides the visual cue indicative of the common name, calico salmon. Spawning females generally sport a dark horizontal band along the lateral line and less intense green and purple vertical bars. Chum salmon in ocean coloration are metallic greenish-blue on the dorsal surface with fine black speckles making them difficult to distinguish from sockeye salmon. Chum salmon have fewer (19-26), shorter and heavier gill rakers on the first arch, relatively large eyes, a very narrow caudal peduncle (base of the tail), and deeply forked caudal fin. Chum salmon range in weight from 7-18 pounds and measure between 24-32 inches long. Male chum salmon spawning coloration includes an overall olive with vertical bars of darker green and purple, which provides the visual cue indicative of the common name, calico salmon. Spawning females generally sport a dark horizontal band along the lateral line and less intense green and purple vertical bars. The males develop the typical hooked snout of Pacific salmon and very large teeth which at least partly accounts for their other name of dog salmon. The chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta), also known as dog salmon or keta salmon, is a species of anadromous salmonid fish from the genus Oncorhynchus (Pacific salmon) native to the coastal rivers of the North Pacific and the Beringian Arctic, and is often marketed under the trade name silver salmon in North America. The English name "chum salmon" comes from the Chinook Jargon term tzum, meaning "spotted" or "marked"; while keta in the scientific name comes from Russian, which in turn comes from the Evenki language of Eastern Siberia. The term 'Dog Salmon' is most commonly used in Alaska and refers to the Salmon whose flesh Alaskans use to feed their dogs.
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