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Lotidae
burbot
Lota lota
Lotid Fish beneath North American Waters
- Temperate
- Upper river
- Circumpolar Arctic
- Northern Hemisphere
- Transcontinental
- Europe
- North America
- Polar regions
- Elongated
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Europe
Elongated
Largeburbot is known from Circumarctic in freshwater as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cods and Hakes
- Family
- Lotidae
- Genus
- Lota
- Maximum length
- 152 cm
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Circumarctic in freshwater (Ref. 1371 ). Europe: Loire drainage, France eastward to White, Barents and Arctic Sea basins; upper Volga drainage; western Caspian basin; rivers draining to Black Sea; Rhône drainage (France); in Italy native only in Po drainage; eastrward England (now extirpated). In Siberia eastward to River Lena. Reported that populations from eastern Siberia and North America belong to a different species, Lota maculosa (Ref. 59043 ). North America: Throughout Canada, Alaska and northern USA (south to Pennysylvannia, Kentucky, Missouri, Wyoming and Washington (Ref. 86798 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
