What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Rainbow Trout been recorded?

Oncorhynchus mykiss occurrence evidence comes from 128,953 records in 45 countries and territories, from 1855 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Rainbow Trout
Rainbow Trout — Photo (display-sized rendition): Engbretson Eric, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
SalmoniformesSalmonidaeOncorhynchus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

128,953 records across 45 countries and territories, 1855–2026.

Oncorhynchus mykiss · GBIF taxon key 5204019

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-20. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: June.

11 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18552026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Rainbow Trout has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Rainbow Trout. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 120,501
Sweden 3,420
Germany 1,614
Italy 939
Canada 770
Colombia 596
Belgium 407
Poland 107
Denmark 95
Slovenia 76
Bosnia & Herzegovina 62
Luxembourg 56
Austria 38
Mexico 36
Serbia 25
Argentina 21
Montenegro 19
United Kingdom 18
Portugal 17
Australia 15
Greece 15
Croatia 15
Japan 12
New Zealand 11
Switzerland 8
France 8
Czechia 6
Bolivia 5
Chile 5
Spain 5
Ecuador 4
South Korea 4
North Macedonia 4
Peru 3
Russia 3
Costa Rica 2
Finland 2
Romania 2
Albania 1
Kenya 1

Showing the top 40 of 45 places.

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.