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Salmo salar 

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
Animalia Chordata Actinopterygii Salmoniformes Salmonidae

Scientific Name: Salmo salar
Species Authority: Linnaeus, 1758
Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
English – Atlantic Salmon, Black Salmon

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Lower Risk/least concern ver 2.3
Year Published: 1996
Date Assessed: 1996-08-01
Annotations:
Needs updating
Assessor(s): World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Geographic Range [top]

Countries occurrence:
Native:
Belgium; Canada; Denmark; Estonia; Faroe Islands; Finland; France; Germany; Greenland; Iceland; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Russian Federation; Slovakia; Spain; Sweden; United Kingdom; United States
Regionally extinct:
Czech Republic; Switzerland
Introduced:
Argentina; Australia; Chile; New Zealand
FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Introduced:
Arctic Sea; Atlantic – northeast; Atlantic – northwest; Atlantic – southwest; Mediterranean and Black Sea; Pacific – southeast; Pacific – southwest
Additional data:
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:An anadramous species.
Systems:Freshwater; Marine
Movement patterns:Full Migrant
Citation: World Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1996. Salmo salar. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T19855A9026693. . Downloaded on 12 July 2017.
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