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Rainbow Trout

Oncorhynchus mykiss

1,750Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
76Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan8
Feb6
Mar38
Apr74
May104
Jun154
Jul161
Aug222
Sep242
Oct217
Nov42
Dec3

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England168
2Gloucestershire England80
3Dumfries and Galloway Scotland73
4Somerset England54
5East Riding of Yorkshire England52
6Kent England50
7West Berkshire England50
8Bath and North East Somerset England48
9Highland Scotland44
10Cumbria England36
11Calderdale England31
12Perth and Kinross Scotland30
13Devon England29
14Kirklees England29
15Cheshire East England27
1,350 England339 Scotland57 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 76 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,750
Peak month
September
Counties with records
76
Scientific name
Oncorhynchus mykiss
Group
Fish
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,303
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Salmoniformes
Family
Salmonidae
Genus
Oncorhynchus
Name with authority
Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792)
Described
1792
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q187986 · GBIF 5204019