Which fish is least related to the other three?
This question is pretty hard, as it deals with the genus of the fish mentioned above. Although it is called a trout, rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) belong to the genus Oncorhynchus, as do Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) are in the same family (Salmonidae), but belong to a different genus (Salmo).
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What are your thoughts on this subject?
26 Comments
Kat
I'm too used to finding "obvious" answers and so I chose the only one not called a salmon. Shame on me for assuming!
Randall Ware
Trout felt too obvious, and Atlantic could also be distinguishing. Missed it, and regret not using the Double Chance.
Fred Zeb Fudpucker
Interesting how many guessed the correct answer based on bad reasons. :)
Sonia Ackhurst
Missed that
Marian Spitzig
I knew 3 were found on the west coast, so I picked the one I wasn’t sure of and was right. Thanks.
Bill Coe
If yo uonly looked at the author of the question, you would know that it would obviously not be the obvious answer. Bernd Rittersporn posts some excellent questions but he's never going to "give you"one. Tough question, Bernd. But it separated out the deep thinkers. P.S.: I got it wrong. But I certainly didn't pick trout.
Mango Myra
Not fair, they're all in the same family, one in different genus.
John W Shreve
Bernd Rittersporn I've caught a couple of steelies in the Russian River. They're winter fish.
Black bass in the summer.
Cecilia
At least I am not in the minority with this. It seems like many others also considered the trout to be the odd fish out. So ok ... now I know more than I did this morning.
Danny More
WOW!
Kelly Tyler
Me, three, :)
Ian MacBrown
Me too Joe. :-\
Ian MacBrown
This one required a phd in ichthyology.
Karen Weissling Talamantes
My guess -- which turned out to be correct -- was "Atlantic Salmon" sounds like an ocean fish, whereas the others sound more like freshwater. Don't know if that's true or not.
W Lee Palmer
Wrong answer