World Species : Salmo salar (Atlantic salmon; Salmon; Winnish; Spring salmon; Spring fish; Smolt; Slink; Silver salmon; Sea salmon; Sebago salmon; Salmon peel; Parr; Outside salmon; Ouinanish; Ouananiche; N. Atlantic salmon; Landlocked salmon; Kippered salmon; Kelt; Grilt; Grilse; Grayling; Fiddler; Common Atlantic salmon; Caplin-scull salmon; Breeder; Black salmon; Bay salmon)

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Salmo salar (Atlantic salmon; Salmon; Winnish; Spring salmon; Spring fish; Smolt; Slink; Silver salmon; Sea salmon; Sebago salmon; Salmon peel; Parr; Outside salmon; Ouinanish; Ouananiche; N. Atlantic salmon; Landlocked salmon; Kippered salmon; Kelt; Grilt; Grilse; Grayling; Fiddler; Common Atlantic salmon; Caplin-scull salmon; Breeder; Black salmon; Bay salmon)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is a salmon in the family Salmonidae. It is found in the northern Atlantic Ocean, in rivers that flow into the north Atlantic and, due to human introduction, in the north Pacific.

View Wikipedia Record: Salmo salar

Infraspecies

Salmo salar americanus
Salmo salar population
Salmo salar salar
Salmo salar var. mas
Salmo salar var. narka
Salmo salar var. salar

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Salmo salar

Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	56.747 lbs (25.74 kg)

Brood Egg Substrate ^[2]	Lithophils
Brood Guarder ^[2]	No
Maximum Longevity ^[1]	13 years
Migration ^[2]	Diadromous

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Vertebrates)

Male Maturity ^[1]	5 years

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Alaska & Canada Pacific Coastal	Canada, United States	Nearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
Cantabric Coast - Languedoc	France, Spain	Palearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
Central & Western Europe	Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom	Palearctic	Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands
Chesapeake Bay	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
Columbia Glaciated	Canada, United States	Nearctic	Temperate Upland Rivers
Columbia Unglaciated	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands
Lahontan	United States	Nearctic	Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins
Laurentian Great Lakes	Canada, United States	Nearctic	Large Lakes
Northeast US & Southeast Canada Atlantic Drainages	Canada, United States	Nearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
Northern Baltic Drainages	Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden	Palearctic	Polar Freshwaters
Northern British Isles	Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom	Palearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
Oregon & Northern California Coastal	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
Sacramento - San Joaquin	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
Upper Mississippi	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands
Upper Snake	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Upland Rivers

Protected Areas

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Emblem of

Maine

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ ⁴Hansson, S., Karlsson, L., Ikonen, E., Christensen, O., Mitans, A., Uzars, D., Petersson, E. and Ragnarsson, B. (2001), "Stomach analyses of Baltic salmon from 1959–1962 and 1994–1997: possible relations between diet and yolk-sac-fry mortality (M74)". Journal of Fish Biology, 58: 1730–1745
♦ ⁵CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
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♦ ⁷Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0