Endangered
Salmo carpio
Salmo carpio
Salmo carpio, also known as the carpione (carpione del Garda or Lake Garda carpione), is a salmonid fish endemic to Lake Garda in Italy.
The salmonid
Salmo carpio is a salmonid in the family Salmonidae (order Salmoniformes).
Range and habitat
Salmo carpio, also known as the carpione (carpione del Garda or Lake Garda carpione), is a salmonid fish endemic to Lake Garda in Italy. The population in Lake Garda has been strongly declining, and is considered endangered.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Salmonids need cold, oxygenated water and a clean gravel or open-lake feeding ground. Endemic whitefishes collapse when the lake is eutrophied or fished out.
In crisis
It has been introduced to a number of other lakes in Italy and elsewhere but unsuccessfully in all cases. The main threats are due to overfishing, pollution and possibly competition from introduced species such as Coregonus and other Salmonidae.
Salmo carpio is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Salmo carpio, Wikidata item Q1494029. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
