Scanning Electron Microscopy of Scales of the Chum Salmon Oncorhynchus keta (Salmonidae)

O. F. Chernova^a^, *, O. M. Zaporozhets^b, and Yu. Yu. Dgebuadze^a
Translated by M. Batrukova

^aSevertsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

^bKamchatka Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, Russia

Correspondence to: * e-mail: chernova@sevin.ru

Received 10 January, 2017

Abstract—Using scanning electron microscopy, the main structures of the surface sculpture of scales of mature wild and hatchery fishes and hatchery yearlings of chum salmon Oncorhynchus keta from Kamchatka water bodies are examined and described.

Keywords: chum salmon, Oncorhynchus keta, surface sculpture, scales, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Kamchatka

DOI: 10.1134/S0032945217060030