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SpeciesSalmoniformesSalmonidae
Fish

🐟Brown trout

Salmo trutta Linnaeus, 1758

ブラウントラウト（学名：Salmo trutta）は、サケ目サケ科に属する魚で、3つの型からなる。河川型 (fario) と 降湖型 (lacustris) はブラウントラウトと呼ばれ、降海型 (trutta) はシートラウトと呼ばれる。別名はブラウンマス、茶マス、茶色マスなど。種小名の trutta は、ラテン語でマスを意味する言葉 trutta に由来する。

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Also called
Salmo trutta, Sea Trout
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
50 kg
Body length
0.72 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
38 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Brown trout

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

Body mass
50 kgmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Body length
0.72 mrecord 1.4 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

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

Maximum lifespan
38 yearsrecord 38 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

Litter size
about 8000
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data quality: acceptable

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

Trophic level
3.36
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.36 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
potential pest
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Volume l
50 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 Brown trout 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 trutta
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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Forelle (de), ørret (nb), taimen (fi), pstruh obecný (cs), ørred (da), Salmo trutta (fr) … and 26 more languages

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