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linnaeus in . the name, salmo salar, derives from the latin salmo, meaning salmon , and salar, meaning leaper, according to m. barton, [ ] but more likely meaning "resident of salt water"[ citation needed ]. lewis and short's latin dictionary (clarendon press, oxford, ) translates salar as a kind of trout
' bet hedging ' strategy against variation in stream flows. so in a drought year, some fish of a given age will not return to spawn, allowing that generation other, wetter years in which to spawn. [ ] hybridization[ edit ] when in shared breeding habitats, atlantic salmon will hybridize with brown trout...
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