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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

Common Name/s:

English

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Atlantic Salmon, Salmon

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Lower Risk/least concern ver 2.3
Year Published:	1996
Annotations:	Needs updating
Assessor/s:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre
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Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	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
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	An anadramous species.
Systems:	Freshwater; Marine

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Salmo salar. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 May 2013.
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