The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Silurus glanis

 – Lower Risk Least Concern

Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: ACTINOPTERYGII
Order: SILURIFORMES
Family: SILURIDAE
Scientific Name: Silurus glanis
Species Authority: Linnaeus, 1758
Synonym/s:
Siluris glanis Linnaeus, 1758 [orth. error]
Common Name/s:
EnglishWELS CATFISH
Taxonomic Notes: Note correction to spelling of the generic name from Siluris to Silurus.

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria: LR/lc    ver 2.3 (1994)
Year Assessed: 1996
Annotations: Needs updating
Assessor/s: World Conservation Monitoring Centre
History:
1996-Lower Risk/least concern as Siluris glanis (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Geographic Range

Countries: Native:

Afghanistan; Armenia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Bulgaria; China; Czech Republic; Estonia; France; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Kazakhstan; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova, Republic of; Montenegro; Poland; Romania; Russian Federation; Serbia; Slovakia; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; Ukraine; Uzbekistan


Introduced:

Algeria; Croatia; Italy; Netherlands; Spain; Tunisia; United Kingdom


Regionally extinct:

Denmark; Finland

Habitat and Ecology

System: Freshwater

Citation: World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Silurus glanis. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 August 2008.
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