Atlantic Salmon

Salmo salar Linnaeus 1758

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Salmo salar (Atlantic Salmon) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family Salmonidae. They are listed as endangered by COSEWIC. They are associated with freshwater habitat. Individuals are known to live for 13 years and can grow to 150 cm.

URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/endangered
Definition: A taxon is Endangered when the best available evidence indicates that it meets any of the \r\ncriteria A to E for Endangered, and it is therefore considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild.
Source: https://species-registry.canada.ca/index-en.html#/species

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URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000873
Definition: A biome that applies to the freshwater realm.

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EOL has data for 30 attributes, including:

parasitized by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002445
- Comment: Auto-added during harvest #37. A human needs to edit this.
- Attribution: Global Biotic Interactions
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Salmo salar Linnaeus 1758 (Atlantic Salmon)
body mass
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VT_0001259
- Definition: The amount of matter in the body of an organism.
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46.8 kg
body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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120 cm
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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United States
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/6252001
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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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large river
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000887
- Comment: "Large" is ambiguous. For details on "Large rivers" (e.g. the Mekong river) see http://worldwildlife.org/biomes/large-river-ecosystems This class will be replaced with a less ambiguous class.
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has ectoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002633
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Salmo salar Linnaeus 1758 (Atlantic Salmon)
has endoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002635
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Salmo salar Linnaeus 1758 (Atlantic Salmon)
life span
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0000050
- Definition: A time quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's expected maximum age.
- Comment: Ontology Description: http://obofoundry.org/wiki/index.php/PATO:Main_Page Ontology Source: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/pato.owl
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13 years
total life span
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VT_0001661
- Definition: The full period of time from birth to death of an organism.
- Comment: Ontology Description: http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/VT
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13 years
water temperature
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeawaterTemperature
- Definition: Temperature of the water at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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-0.404 degrees celsius
weight
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0000128
- Definition: A physical quality inhering in a bearer that has mass near a gravitational body.
- Comment: Ontology Description: http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/PATO Ontology Source: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/pato.owl
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25740 g
wet body mass
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/bodyMassWet
- Definition: Mass of one individual of this taxon, living or fresh, without desiccation
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2948 g

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Atlantic Salmon. View this species on GBIF

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