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SpeciesSalmoniformesSalmonidae
Fish

🐟Lake trout

Salvelinus namaycush (Walbaum, 1792)

湖红点鲑（學名：Salvelinus namaycush），又称突吻红点鲑或湖鳟（英語：lake trout），是一种淡水红点鲑，主要生活北美北部的湖泊。湖红点鲑是重要的游钓鱼和食用鱼。

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
18 kg
Body length
0.5 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
50 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Lake trout

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

Body mass
18 kgrecord 33 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
0.5 mrecord 1.5 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

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

Maximum lifespan
50 yearsrecord 50 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
4.29
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.29 (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
18 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 Lake trout yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderSalmoniformes
  4. ›familySalmonidae
  5. ›genusSalvelinus
  6. ›speciesSalvelinus namaycush
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderSalmoniformes
  3. familySalmonidae
  4. subfamilySalmoninae
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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
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In other languages
siven obrovský (cs), harmaanieriä (fi), kanadarøye (nb), Salvelinus namaycush (fr), Amerikaanse meerforel (nl), Salvelinus namaycush (pt) … and 18 more languages
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