Thread: onchorynchus salar
View Single Post
  #6  
Old March 29th, 2007, 08:31 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
mu
external usenet poster
  
Posts: 19
Default onchorynchus salar
On Mar 27, 11:29 pm, wrote:


Atlantic salmon are Salmo salar

Rainbow trout are Onchorynchus mykiss

TL
MC-

The juxtaposition was deliberate. "salar" = leap. An Atlantic salmon
is sometimes referred to as "the leaper".

Mu