Spike-toothed Salmon

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Oncorhynchus rastrosus was possibly the largest member of the family Salmonidae, rivalling or exceeding the largest living salmonid Hucho taimen in size, with estimates varying from standard length (without tail fin) of 1.9 m (6 ft 3 in) and 177 kg (390 lb) to total length of 2.4–2.7 m (7 ft 10 in – 8 ft 10 in) and 200 kg (440 lb).

Members of this species had a pair of small "fangs" protruding from the tip of the snout, thus explaining the common name and synonym.

The standing wave at the base of each waterfall is the key to their spectacular leaps because it aids in lifting the salmon into the air and allows them to conserve energy.

Salmons are unable to survive out of water. Outside of water, they flop around for a while until eventually they start to suffocate and die. Salmon flip around on their sides.

Salmons have a weakness to weapons that have the Impaling enchantment, which also affects other fish and water/ocean mobs.

The salmon's spike teeth grew in size as it transitioned from life in the ocean to fresh water. The salmon bred in fresh water, as Pacific salmon do today, they running in streaming river or waterfall. Tooth wear patterns suggest the salmon used its teeth to defend territory and mark nests during the breeding phase.

Aggressive behavior displayed by dominant males is predominantly directed towards intruding dominant males. Sometimes sockeye salmon males behave aggressively towards subordinate males. These encounters are short, with the intruding male leaving after one or two aggressive interactions. Spawning females direct their aggression primarily towards intruding females or other spawning females that are close by. However, they may also direct aggression towards intruding or subordinate males. Aggressive interactions between females only last one or two charges and/or chases. The intruder retreats and the spawning female settles back in her redd. These acts of aggression are important in terms of reproductive success, because they determine the quality of the nest site the female obtains and access to males and aquarium fishes.

They first appeared in the late Miocene in California, then widespread in North Pacific ocean until they died out some time during the Early Pliocene.

• Movement Pattern: Full Migrant

• Individual Type: Group

• Population Trend: Decreasing

• Population: none

• Locomotion: Terrestrial/Amphibious/Aquatic/Buoyancy/Airborne

• Habitat: Warm River; Cold River; Lukewarm River; Warm Pond; Cold Pond; Warm Littoral; Cold Littoral; Warm Intertidal; Cold Intertidal; Kelp Forest; Coral Reef; Barrier Reef; Guyot; Neritic Zone (Warm); Neritic Zone (Cold); Pelagic Zone (Warm); Pelagic Zone (Cold).

• Earth: 

  • Extant (Resident): Canada (British Columbia, Yukon); Russia (Magadan, Kamchatka, Kuril Is., Khabarovsk); United States (Alaska, Aleutian Is., Washington)

  • Extant & Introduced (Resident): Japan

  • Extinct: United States (Idaho, Oregon)

The salmon can be tamed in a fish basket used for petting and put in your own artificial lake.

Several fish including this species was extinct because of the early Isu in Pliocene. The species was first described in 1972 from remains found in the Madras Formation near Gateway in Jefferson County, Central Oregon. Other specimens have been described from other parts of Oregon as well as California, as well as central Japan. Additional material subsequently collected from the Gateway locality has included articulated skull material.

Unfortunately, no purebred sabertooth salmons were found in fossils because were already modified by advanced Saurfolks and Fomorians in early Cenozoic, as the Apple-like device that has same function as Pleistocene orbs, and they can interface with these neurotransmitters to issue commands to the human brain, thus allowing them mental control over slaved fish and prehistoric animals with the unique and obscured organ called the ayatana.

See also: 

• English: Sabertooth salmon

• 中文: 劍齒鮭

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncorhynchus_rastrosus

• https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oncorhynchus_rastrosus

• https://www.gbif.org/species/11324651

• https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35525

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Saber-toothed-Salmon-1098500365