#2155 · 🐟 fish

Brown Trout

🇳🇱 Atlantische forel ·Salmo trutta

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © kirk gardner · CC BY 4.0
2. © Alexei Poletaev · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © kary · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Mario Vega Pérez · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Emilio Concari · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © USFWS Fish and Aquatic Conservation · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © kirk gardner · CC BY 4.0
8. © Micah Lauer · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Kjell M. Sarre · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Jacob · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The brown trout ( Salmo trutta ) is a European species of salmonid fish that has been widely introduced into suitable environments globally. It includes both purely freshwater populations, referred to as the riverine ecotype or Salmo trutta morpha fario and a lacustrine ecotype, S. trutta morpha lacustris , also called the lake trout , as well as anadromous forms known as the sea trout, S. trutta morpha trutta . The latter migrates to the oceans for much of its life...

base stats

NL sightings 4iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 18,424iNaturalist 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).