… Yamame can be broadly divided into river, lake and sea-run types. For about a year after birth, all show characteristics of the river type, making it difficult to tell them apart, but in the spring, one and a half years after hatching, many females from Hokkaido to the Tohoku region go down to the sea, at which point the markings on their bodies disappear and they become the silver-white, shiny, silver-haired Yamame. Males do not go down rivers, and the rate at which females go down to the sea tends to be higher the further north they are. … *Some of the terminology used to refer to "silver-haired Yamabe" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
… ヤマメには,大きく分けて河川型,湖沼型,降海型が見られる。生後1年ほどはいずれも河川型の特徴を示しており区別がむずかしいが,孵化(ふか)1年半後の春に北海道から東北地方では雌の多くが海に下り,そのときに体の斑紋が消え,全身が銀白色に光り輝く銀毛ヤマベとなる。雄は川を下ることはなく,雌の降海率も北方ほど高い傾向がある。… ※「銀毛ヤマベ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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