Black kokanee
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phylum | Chordata | Oncorhynchus kawamurae, the black kokanee, or kunimasu in Japanese, is a Japanese species of salmon which was thought had gone extinct in 1940, but was discovered to still have a living population in 2010. The fish is dark olive with black spots on its back, and grows to approximately one foot (30 centimeters) in length.
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class | Actinopterygii | |
order | Salmoniformes | |
family | Salmonidae | |
genus | Oncorhynchus | |
species | O. kawamurae |