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title: "Brown Trout"
description: "Salmo trutta — Peixes. The brown trout (Salmo trutta) is a species of carnivorous ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the salmonid genus Salmo, endemic to most of Europe, West Asia and parts of North Africa, and has been widely introduced globally as a game fish, even becoming one of the world's worst invasive species outside of its native range."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/brown-trout
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Brown Trout

> Salmo trutta — Peixes. The brown trout (Salmo trutta) is a species of carnivorous ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the salmonid genus Salmo, endemic to most of Europe, West Asia and parts of North Africa, and has been widely introduced globally as a game fish, even becoming one of the world's worst invasive species outside of its native range.

- Scientific name: *Salmo trutta*
- Category: `fish` (Peixes)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lagos e rios)
- iNaturalist observations: 17906
- Wikidata: [Q2857311](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2857311)
- iNaturalist taxon: [47518](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47518)

## Names

- en: Brown Trout
- de: Forelle
- es: Trucha común
- fr: Truite commune européenne
- nl: Forel

## Countries with the most observations

US (7109), GB (1384), FR (736), CA (688), IT (674), NZ (614), ES (561), DE (528), AU (490), AT (400), CZ (251), NO (242)

## Summary

The brown trout (Salmo trutta) is a species of carnivorous ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the salmonid genus Salmo, endemic to most of Europe, West Asia and parts of North Africa, and has been widely introduced globally as a game fish, even becoming one of the world's worst invasive species outside of its native range.
Brown trout are highly adaptable and have evolved numerous ecotypes/subspecies. These include three main ecotypes: a riverine ecotype S. trutta morpha fario, commonly called river trout; a lacustrine ecotype S. trutta morpha lacustris, also called the lake trout (not to be…

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

## Photo

![Brown Trout](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brown-trout/medium.jpg)

Photo: Kimball Garrett · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/119474804

## Machine access

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