Endangered
Salmo platycephalus
Salmo platycephalus
Salmo platycephalus is a salmonid in the family Salmonidae (order Salmoniformes), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Genetic evidence suggests that the flathead trout may indeed be derived from introduced brown trout (Salmo trutta) and thus not be a distinct species of its own.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to southeastern Turkey. It is known only from one population, that occupies three streams, tributaries of the Zamantı River in the Seyhan River basin. The population itself is abundant, but subject to threat by habitat loss, since the range is small.
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
Also, predation of juveniles by introduced rainbow trout may cause population decline. The species is classified as critically endangered.
Salmo platycephalus 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 platycephalus, Wikidata item Q488251. 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.
