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Gasterosteus cataphractus
Note: The salmons ascend rivers and penetrate to their head streams to spawn. They are remarkably strong fishes, and will even leap over considerable falls which lie in the way of their progress. The common salmon has been known to grow to the weight of seventy-five pounds; more generally it is from fifteen to twenty-five pounds. Young salmon are called parr, peal, smolt, and grilse. Among the true salmons are: Black salmon, or Lake salmon, the namaycush. Dog salmon, a salmon of Western North America (Oncorhynchus keta). Humpbacked salmon, a Pacific-coast salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha). King salmon, the quinnat. Landlocked salmon, a variety of the common salmon (var. Sebago), long confined in certain lakes in consequence of obstructions that prevented it from returning to the sea. This last is called also dwarf salmon. Note: Among fishes of other families which are locally and erroneously called salmon are: the pike perch, called jack salmon; the spotted, or southern, squeteague; the cabrilla, called kelp salmon; young pollock, called sea salmon; and the California yellowtail. 2. A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon. Salmon berry (Bot.), a large red raspberry growing from Alaska to California, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus. Salmon killer (Zo["o]l.), a stickleback (Gasterosteus cataphractus) of Western North America and Northern Asia. Salmon ladder, Salmon stair. See Fish ladder, under Fish. Salmon peel, a young salmon. Salmon pipe, a certain device for catching salmon. --Crabb. Salmon trout. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The European sea trout (Salmo trutta). It resembles the salmon, but is smaller, and has smaller and more numerous scales. (b) The American namaycush. (c) A name that is also applied locally to the adult black spotted trout (Salmo purpuratus), and to the steel head and other large trout of the Pacific coast.

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- Commons has media related to Mecistops cataphractus. Wikispecies has information related to Mecistops cataphractus. Rio, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D...
- cataphractus or cataphract in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cataphractus may refer to: Cataphractus Gronow, 1763 – synonym of Pegasus Cataphractus...
- T5333A197397829.en. Species Ouroborus cataphractus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org. "Cordylus cataphractus ". Arkive Archived 2010-05-13 at...
- M. cataphractus, but recent genetic analysis has revealed the existence of two species: the West African slender-snouted crocodile (M. cataphractus) and...
- Agonus and in 1814 Tilesius designated Cottus cataphractus as the type species of the genus. Cottus cataphractus was described by Linnaeus in 1758 with a type...
- ****ignable to M. cataphractus so they synonymized M. bennettii with M. cataphractus. Shirley et al. (2018) also designated M. cataphractus as the type species...
- valued imparities". The genus of the armadillo girdled lizard, Ouroborus cataphractus, takes its name from the animal's defensive posture: curling into a ball...
- Acanthodoras cataphractus more commonly Spiny catfish, is a species of thorny catfish found in rivers of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana...
- osborni and a third, currently unnamed.) Genus Mecistops Mecistops cataphractus West African slender-snouted crocodile Mecistops leptorhynchus Central...
- 2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T5671A3048087.en. Shirley, M. H. (2014). "Mecistops cataphractus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T5660A3044332. doi:10...