"La Truite Trutta variabilis G. Lunel"
Date 16 May 2019, 09:05:58
Source Godefroy Lunel, Histoire naturelle des poissons du bassin du Léman. Drawings by Alphonse Lunel. Version kept in Bibliothèque du Muséum de Genève, inventory number: MHN POI R 15 A.
Author Alphonse Lunel
Date 1916
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lunel_-_Trutta_variabilis_-_MHN_POI_R_13_A_17.jpg

The brown trout (Salmo trutta) is a European species of salmonid fish (Salmonidae) that has been widely introduced into suitable environments globally. The native range of brown trouts extends from northern Norway and White Sea tributaries in Russia in the Arctic Ocean to the Atlas Mountains in North Africa. The western limit of Salmo trutta is Iceland in the north Atlantic, while the eastern limit is in Aral Sea tributaries in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Genus: Salmo
Species: Salmo trutta Linnaeus, 1758