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This article is about Sabertooth Salmon, not to be confused with 
Sabertooth
Sabertooth Salmon
Spawn Command
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cheat summon Salmon_Character_BP_Cor
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Salmon/Salmon_Character_BP.Salmon_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35Variant Aberrant Sabertooth Salmon
cheat summon Salmon_Character_Aberrant_Cor
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Salmon/Salmon_Character_Aberrant.Salmon_Character_Aberrant'" 500 0 0 35Variant Sabertooth Salmon (Escort)
cheat summon Salmon_Character_BP_Escort_Cor
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/MissionVariants/Escort/Ocean/Salmon_Character_BP_Escort.Salmon_Character_BP_Escort'" 500 0 0 35Variant X-Sabertooth Salmon
cheat summon Lunar_Salmon_Character_BP_Cor
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/BiomeVariants/Lunar_Salmon/Lunar_Salmon_Character_BP.Lunar_Salmon_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35Variant Rare X-Sabertooth Salmon
cheat summon Rare_Lunar_Salmon_Character_BP_Cor
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/BiomeVariants/Lunar_Salmon/Rare_Lunar_Salmon_Character_BP.Rare_Lunar_Salmon_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 351 Can be kept and released in a 
Fish Basket.
Fish Basket.
YesHabitat
Common Rare
Untameable Cave
Untameable Cave
The Sabertooth Salmon or Oncorhynchus is one of the creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Basic Info
Dossier
This section is intended to be an exact copy of what the survivor Helena Walker, the author of the dossiers, has written. There may be some discrepancies between this text and the in-game creature.
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Species
Oncorhynchus grexlamia
TimeLate Miocene - Mid Pleistocene
DietCarnivore
TemperamentEvasive, Aggressive when attacked
- Wild
Fairly unremarkable by the Island's standards, Oncorhynchus grexlamia is a generally passive fish. Its main form of protection is swimming in a large school. Oncorhynchus does not like conflict, and generally swims away from anything larger than itself at very high speeds. Once provoked, however, Oncorhynchus becomes quite aggressive, along with its nearby brethren. It locks onto its prey with its long "saberteeth" and begins draining that creature's blood. This loss of blood is not too dangerous alone, but when a school of Oncorhynchus attack at once, their target quickly loses speed and stamina from blood loss, drowning if it cannot breath underwater.
- Domesticated
Like many of the smaller fish found on or around the Island, Oncorhynchus cannot be tamed, but it is often herded and harvested for its resources. In particular, certain cuts of Oncorhynchus meat are considered to have superb quality, and are often referred to as "Prime Fish" used for specific high-end concoctions and taming the Island's many piscivorous creatures.
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~ Helena
Behavior
Sabertooth salmon lazily swim about in schools until a player enters the water, which, at that point, they begin to swim away from the player in all directions. However, if one salmon is attacked and still alive, it and its companions will all rush in to attack the player in a vicious frenzy of tooth and fin until they or the player are killed.
Appearance
The Sabertooth Salmon is a common fish species in the rivers of the ARK, and thus, a popular prey item for many water-dwelling species on the island. It resembles a modern-day salmon in all aspects save for large fangs protruding from its mouth that give the creature its name.
Color Scheme and Regions
Region 0:Body
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Region 4:Lower Fins
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This section displays the Sabertooth Salmon's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Sabertooth Salmon. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Sabertooth Salmon will randomly spawn with to provide an overall range of its natural color scheme. Hover your cursor over a color to display its name and ID.
This information can be used to alter the Sabertooth Salmon's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Sabertooth Salmon's "head, upper body/fins, and tail fin" magenta.
Head, Upper Body/Fins, and Tail Fin
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Lower Fins
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This section displays the Sabertooth Salmon's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Sabertooth Salmon. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Sabertooth Salmon will randomly spawn with to provide an overall range of its natural color scheme. Hover your cursor over a color to display its name and ID.
This information can be used to alter the Sabertooth Salmon's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Sabertooth Salmon's "side stars" magenta.
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Variants
Aberrant Sabertooth Salmon
Aberrant Sabertooth Salmon is the Aberrant variant of Sabertooth Salmon found in Aberration. It is identical to the normal species except for its bio-luminescence. It is tameable and is not 
Radiation immune.
X-Sabertooth Salmon
X-Sabertooth Salmon is a tameable X variant of the Sabertooth Salmon found in the Lunar Biome on Genesis: Part 1. It is identical to the normal species except for a patterned coat. It has 5% × 
Melee Damage increase at the exchange of 3% × 
Health reduction. On official servers its level cap is 500.
Like all X-Creatures on Genesis: Part 1, wild X-Sabertooth Salmon additionally have a 250% damage increase and a 60% damage reduction from players and tamed creatures.
Rare X-Sabertooth Salmon
Rare X-Sabertooth Salmon is a variant of X-Sabertooth Salmon found in the Lunar Biome, in the Derelict Mine cave in Genesis: Part 1.
Drops
Use a 
Sickle to harvest 
Raw Prime Fish Meat.
Base Stats and Growth
| Attribute | Base Value | Level Increase |
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| Wild | ||
 Health |
65 | +13 |
 Stamina |
100 | +10 |
 Oxygen |
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 Food |
100 | +10 |
 Weight |
18 | +0.36 |
 Melee Damage |
4 | +0.2 |
 Movement Speed |
100% | N/A |
 Torpidity |
15 | +0.9 |
- For a comparison of the stats of all creatures, see Base Creature Statistics.
- For an explanation of exactly how the levelup calculation works, see Creature Stats Calculation.
- 1These are the base speeds of the tamed creature at 100% Movement Speed, i.e. without a possible taming bonus.
- 2These are the speeds of the creature once tamed including a possible taming bonus and no imprinting bonus.
- For a comparison of the speeds of all creatures, see Base Creature Speeds.
Abilities
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Combat
This section describes how to fight against the Sabertooth Salmon.
General
Sabertooth Salmon very rarely swim alone. Found in groups of 3-4+, provoking one can very quickly become a very bad decision if not prepared.
Strategy
When fighting the salmon it is important to remember that their bleed is a killer, so staying near the shore is a viable strategy. Simply swim far enough to hit the fish with a spear or bow ( or crossbow if available ) then swim back. This will aggro all nearby salmon but they will be easy pickings from the shore with a spear or pike.
Weaponry
Long range weapons such as a bow or crossbow can be a cheap and simple way to dispatch of these fish from the shore or shallow bodies of water. Long reaching spears and pikes are also valid options.
Dangers
When attacked, a Sabertooth Salmon will usually flee for a few seconds, but will then come back and attack. Any other Sabertooth Salmon in the area will also become aggressive and swarm the attacker. It's bleed effect however should be the primary concern as it can drain 
Stamina thus slowing down the survivor's speed significantly in water it is recommended to stay close to the surface should you find yourself swarmed
Weakness
Often limited in health and seems to possess a larger hit box than Piranhas.
They also have decent knockback which can be used to push yourself towards land.
Taming
Sabertooth Salmon can be 'tamed' using Fish Basket. They can level, however they do not eat from the trough.
Utility
Roles
Food Source: Sabertooth Salmon can easily be bulked trapped by use of walls and dinosaur doors, guaranteeing a readily available source of Prime Fish for taming and recipes.
Pet: Like all aquatic animals tamed via Fish Basket, they can be kept as pets.
Escort: Rather nimble, they can keep up with most aquatic mounts. Despite their low stats, they are still nothing to sneeze at in terms of combat power, their stamina draining bleed can slow down an escaping enemy, providing ample time for you and your allies to close in on the target.
Collectibles
Notes/Trivia
For information pertaining specifically to the real-world Sabertooth Salmon, see the relevant Wikipedia article.
- The dossier was revealed by Jat on February 1, 2016 [1]
- The generic name means "hooked nose", referring to the shape of its mouth. The specific epithet roughly means "gregarious swallower", referring to its social nature and ferocity when provoked, but it is incorrectly constructed; the correct form would be gregilamia.
- Like
Coelacanth, they can appear in different sizes. The smallest are barely larger than a human’s arm, some of the smallest creatures in game, while the largest are beasts that can be comparable in size to an Ichthyosaurus, if not larger, and could easily be ridden if it was allowed. Note that size seems to affect amount and quality of meat, but does not reflect what level the fish is. Small fish can be just as dangerous (if not more so because they’re harder to hit) as larger ones if you attack them! - Beyond their fangs, adults of Sabertooth salmon had larger gill rakers compared to their smaller, modern relatives, leading scientists to suggest that the adults ate plankton.
- Real Salmon lay eggs, however Ark's Sabertooth Salmon do not.
- The Salmon are cloned by the
Overseer to maintain their presence in the ecosystem, because they are either completely unable to breed or their population is unable to recover manually.
- The game does not assign any genders to the Salmon, making players unable to breed them.
- Sabertooth Salmon do not produce
Feces. - Helena wrote in her dossier and notes that Oncorhynchus cannot be tamed. However, this only means she and other survivors were unable to tame them.
- The Sabertooth Salmon along with Coelacanth,
Leech, 
Piranha and 
Trilobite became tamable with the Fish Basket introduced in Aberration. - Salmon in real life sacrifice their lives using all of their strength to reach their birth place to lay their eggs. The salmon die after laying their eggs.
- Genesis: Part 1 introduced a new variant called the X-Sabertooth Salmon. Currently, this is the only biome-variant in the Lunar Biome.
- Sabertooth Salmon are not assigned genders in the game, thus they cannot be bred by players.
- In the game Sabertooth Salmon will get beached sometimes which will instantly kill them.
Changelog
| Patch |  ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
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| 240.0 | Sabertooth Salmon is added to the game |
| 240.1 | Harvesting Salmon corpses with a Metal Sickle now longer give unreasonably high quantities of Raw Prime Fish Meat.
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| 254.5 | Sabertooth Salmon no longer receive buffs or debuffs. |
| 261.0 | Added Sabertooth Salmon to the Snow Cave on The Island. |
| 275.0 |
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| 306.41 | Added X-Sabertooth Salmon and Rare X-Sabertooth Salmon |
Spotlight
Gallery
Render of a Sabertooth Salmon.
Render of an X-Sabertooth Salmon.
References
Categories:
- Fish
- Carnivores
- Evasive creatures
- Creatures released in v240
- Creatures released in 2016
- Creatures released in v734
- Creatures released in v501
- Creatures released in v521
- Creatures released in 2018
- Creatures released in Mobile v1
- Tameable creatures
- Unbreedable creatures
- Creatures that are immune to torpor
- Creatures that don't drop feces
- Creatures
- Aquatic