Huchen: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the huchen lives – recorded in 7 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Hucho hucho
Group	Bony fish
Status	Vulnerable (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	7 countries
Continents	Europe
Class	Ray-finned fish
Order	Salmoniformes
Family	Salmonidae

Where does the huchen live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the huchen in 7 countries and territories across Europe.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the huchen endangered?

The huchen’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Vulnerable” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the huchen?

The huchen (Hucho hucho) is a ray-finned fish in the order Salmoniformes and the family Salmonidae, genus Hucho. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the huchen

The huchen (Hucho hucho) (, from German), also known as Danube salmon or redfish (German: Rotfisch), is a large species of freshwater fish in the family Salmonidae native to the Danube basin in Central and Eastern Europe. It is the type species of genus Hucho (a.k.a. the taimens), being closely related (in the same subfamily) to salmon, trout, char and lenoks.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Huchen (revision 1360469435), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q550211 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).