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Mongolian legend tells of a giant taimen trapped in river ice. Starving herders were able to survive the winter by hacking off pieces of its flesh. In the spring, the ice melted and the giant taimen climbed onto the land, tracked down the herders, and ate them all. According to Chinese folklore, a type of giant taimen lives in Kanas Lake in ...
The Sakhalin taimen (Parahucho perryi, syn. Hucho perryi), also known as the Japanese huchen or stringfish (Japanese: 伊富/イトウ, romanized: itō), is a large species of salmonid freshwater fish in Northeast Asia, found in the lakes and large rivers of Primorsky, Khabarovsk, Sakhalin and Kuril Islands of Far Eastern Russia, as well as Hokkaido of Japan.
Hucho is a genus of large piscivorous salmonid fish known as taimens (from Finnish taimen, 'trout', through Russian: тайме́нь, romanized: taĭménʹ), and is closely related to Pacific trout and lenoks (all belonging to the same tribe in the subfamily Salmoninae).
An illustration of the Sichuan Taimen (Hucho bleekeri) The Sichuan taimen typically has a dark black, dorsal, and adipose fin; a silvery white underside; and small, irregular dark spots across the body, head, and gill cover. [4] [5] Their coloring can range from a darker orange/red, to a lighter tan/yellow depending on stage of life. [3]
This fish can range up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) and weigh 7 kg (15 lb). [73] Seahorses and allies (Syngnathiformes) The largest of this diverse order is the red cornetfish (Fistularia petimba), a long, thin species found in all tropical oceans. This fish can reach a length of 2 m (6.6 ft) and a weight of 4.65 kg (10.3 lb). [73]
Hucho perryi — Japanese huchen, Sakhalin taimen; Hucho taimen — Taimen; Oncorhynchus (Pacific salmon and Pacific trout) Oncorhynchus gorbuscha — Pink salmon, humpback salmon; Oncorhynchus keta — Chum salmon, dog salmon, keta salmon, silverbrite salmon; Oncorhynchus kisutch — Coho salmon, silver salmon, silvers
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The huchen is endemic to the Danube basin in Europe where the remaining population is threatened primarily by river damming, resulting in habitat fragmentation and loss through river impoundment and disruption of the longitudinal continuity of rivers, cutting away fish from its spawning grounds, with overfishing and fisheries mismanagement as an additional issue in many areas.