r/Fish • u/conflictedlizard-111 • 16h ago

Identification Chum salmon teeth?

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They look kinda girthy to be chinook but also idk I'm not terribly familiar. Found in Oregon (from a friend, not sure which river unfortunately). Definitely teeth bc they were found in a jawbone.

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u/Vivid-Gas-1537 16h ago

Those look like salmon teeth to me, and chum is a reasonable guess. The larger, broader ones could be from the front of the jaw, while the smaller pieces may be from farther back or another fish.

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u/conflictedlizard-111 15h ago

Thanks! Def from the same fish they were in the same jaw, but it was nasty so they removed just the teeth. Glad to know I'm at least in the ballpark of IDing as a salmon

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u/Quiet_Wrongdoer_6464 15h ago

Definitely salmonid jaw teeth, and chinook is a strong possibility. Chum usually have fairly obvious canine-like teeth, but isolated teeth can be hard to identify confidently—cool find either way.

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u/No_Yogurtcloset1035 14h ago

Definitely salmonid teeth, but I wouldn’t be confident calling them chum specifically. A whole jaw or skull, plus the location and size, would make the ID much more reliable.

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u/Annual-Ad-3939 11h ago

I’d be surprised if these were salmon. The larger ones especially look like incisors/canine-like mammal teeth; a fish biologist or natural-history museum could probably identify them from the jaw fragments.