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SpeciesSalmoniformesSalmonidae
Fish

🐟Atlantic salmon

Salmo salar Linnaeus, 1758

Salmo salar , le Saumon atlantique, Saumon de l'Atlantique ou Saumon d'eau douce, est une espèce de poissons téléostéens, de la famille des Salmonidés. Il vit dans les zones tempérées, fraîches et froides de l'océan Atlantique. Il est élevé de façon intensive en pisciculture (en mer, en cages flottantes) depuis les années 1980. La Norvège en est le plus gros producteur.

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Also called
salmon, Black Salmon
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
26 kg
Body length
0.38 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
13 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Atlantic salmon

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
26 kgrecord 47 kg · FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
0.38 mrecord 1.5 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

By sex

  • Female1.2 mFishBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan
13 yearsrecord 13 years · FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
4.5
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.5 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
26 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Atlantic salmon yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderSalmoniformes
  4. ›familySalmonidae
  5. ›genusSalmo
  6. ›speciesSalmo salar
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. familySalmonidae
  3. subfamilySalmoninae
  4. genusSalmo
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderSalmoniformes
  10. familySalmonidae
  11. subfamilySalmoninae
  12. genusSalmo
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Atlantische zalm (nl), saumon atlantique (fr), Laks (nb), Atlantischer Lachs (de), lohi (fi), losos obecný (cs) … and 25 more languages
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