#2154 · 🐟 fish

Rainbow Trout

🇳🇱 Regenboogforel ·Oncorhynchus mykiss

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 in the Netherlands (introduced)

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what is it?

The rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ) is a trout and species of salmonid native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. The steelhead (sometimes called "steelhead trout") is an anadromous (sea-run) form of the coastal rainbow trout ( O. m. irideus ) or Columbia River redband trout ( O. m. gairdneri ) that usually returns to fresh water to spawn after living two to three years in the ocean. Freshwater forms that have been introduced into...

base stats

NL sightings 4iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 27,974iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).