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Hucho hucho (danube salmon or huchen; Danube trout; Danube salmon; Huchen; Hunchen; Danube; Rotfish)

Synonyms: Hucho germanorum (heterotypic); Salmo hucho (homotypic)
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Wikipedia Abstract

The huchen /ˈhuːkən/ or Danube salmon (Hucho hucho) is a large species of freshwater fish in the salmon family of order Salmoniformes. It is the type species of its genus. The huchen is endemic to the Danube basin in Europe where the remaining population is threatened by overfishing and habitat loss. It has been introduced elsewhere on the continent and in Morocco, but most of these populations are not self-sustaining. In historic times the huchen has also been found in the Dniestr basin. Sometimes it lives in big dam reservoirs on mountain rivers such as Czorsztyn Lake in Poland.
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Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  63.053 lbs (28.60 kg)
Brood Egg Substrate [2]  Lithophils
Brood Guarder [2]  No
Maximum Longevity [3]  15 years
Migration [4]  Potamodromous
Diet [2]  Piscivore
Female Maturity [3]  5 years
Male Maturity [1]  5 years

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Barbus barbus (Barbel)[5]
Chondrostoma nasus (Common nase)[5]
Gobio gobio (Gudgeon)[5]
Phoxinus phoxinus (Minnow)[5]
Thymallus thymallus (Grayling)[5]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Grenouillet, G. & Schmidt-Kloiber., A.; 2006; Fish Indicator Database. Euro-limpacs project, Workpackage 7 - Indicators of ecosystem health, Task 4, www.freshwaterecology.info, version 5.0 (accessed on July 3, 2012).
♦ 3Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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