Talk:Rainbow trout
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Is it true that based on recent DNA evidence current thinking on steelhead is that it is in fact a salmon?
- I believe that in general, genetically there isn't a big difference between trout and salmon. -- Walt Pohl 18:09, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Trout have white meat and salmon generally have pinkish meat. I'm no expert, but I generally remember being told that a steelhead was a type of salmon, and up until reading this article I had never heard of steelhead and rainbow trout being the same species. If that is indeed true it would be great if the author could add a source for that information. Tombride 03:46, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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- Here is a source from FishBase of all the common names in many languages for Oncorhynchus mykiss [1] Luigizanasi 06:48, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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- Excellent, thank you! Tombride 20:35, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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According to a few articles I read, and most notably the BBC, there are several species that share the common name "Rainbow trout". But they do confirm that the genetic differences between the coastal "Rainbow trout" species and "Steelhead trout" species are sufficiently small to allow interbreeding... So it looks like the introductory paragraph is a bit misleading in addition to being technically inaccurate.
[edit] Why the move?
Why did you move the page? Rainbow trout and steelhead are equally common names (and most people don't know that they're genetically the same species because they look pretty different), so I don't see what's gained by moving it to rainbow trout. -- Walt Pohl 06:27, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC) trots could live for up to 50 years.
[edit] Merging Steelhead
I really don't think there needs to be two separate articles; "Steelhead" should probably just redirect to "Rainbow Trout" since any information on how some people differentiate "steelhead" could easily be contained in the rainbow trout article. Any thoughts? -Big Smooth 20:38, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
- It's not necessary to do that, since the steelhead page was already a redirect before someone started to duplicate the article. Noisy | Talk 02:46, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Binomial name origins
The current description of the original scientific naming is confusing. For example, there's no statement about mykiss, until implicitly in "the original binomial name is now used". ENeville 17:57, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
- The Confusing tag has been up for a bit without any changes on this section, so I'll propose a resolution. I think the article should cite just Walbaum, with a possible mention of Gibbons. Gibbons really didn't discover this species anymore than Columbus discovered America, so his relevance to the species is parochial and minimal on the world scale in which rainbow trout now exist. ENeville 20:37, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
