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title: "Pstrąg źródlany"
description: "Salvelinus fontinalis — Ryby. The brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is a species of freshwater fish in the char genus Salvelinus of the salmon family Salmonidae native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/brook-trout
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Pstrąg źródlany

> Salvelinus fontinalis — Ryby. The brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is a species of freshwater fish in the char genus Salvelinus of the salmon family Salmonidae native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada.

- Scientific name: *Salvelinus fontinalis*
- Category: `fish` (Ryby)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Jeziora i rzeki)
- iNaturalist observations: 13679
- Wikidata: [Q723654](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q723654)
- iNaturalist taxon: [49596](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/49596)

## Names

- en: Brook Trout
- de: Bachsaibling
- es: Trucha de arroyo
- fr: Omble de fontaine
- nl: Bronforel
- pl: Pstrąg źródlany

## Countries with the most observations

US (8989), CA (2927), AT (170), IT (150), FR (80), JP (55), DE (43), AR (38), CZ (31), PL (23), ES (18), CH (16)

## Summary

The brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is a species of freshwater fish in the char genus Salvelinus of the salmon family Salmonidae native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada. Two ecological forms of brook trout have been recognized by the US Forest Service. One ecological form is long-lived potamodromous populations in Lake Superior known as coaster trout or coasters. The second ecological form is the short-living predaceous anadromous populations which are found in northern lakes and coastal rivers from Long Island to Hudson Bay, which are referred to as salters. In parts of its range, it is…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook_trout

## Photo

![Pstrąg źródlany](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brook-trout/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jesse West · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/340883462

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/brook-trout?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).