Humboldt cutthroat trout

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Humboldt cutthroat trout
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Genus: Oncorhynchus
Species: Oncorhynchus clarki
Trinomial name
O. clarki spp.
(Behnke and Trotter, 2008)[1]

The Humboldt cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki spp.)[2] is a species of fish in the Salmonidae family, is one of 14 subspecies of cutthroat trout and is found only in the upper Humboldt River of northern Nevada.[3]

Notes

  1. Behnke, Robert J. and Trotter, Patrick C. (2008). "The Case for Humboldtensis: A subspecies name for the indigenous cutthroat trout, Oncorhynchus clarki of the Humboldt River, Upper Quinn River, and Coyote Basin Drainages, Nevada and Oregon". Western North American Naturalist (Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University) 68 (1): 58–65. JSTOR 41717657. 
  2. P. Budy (May 1, 2012). "Early Life - History Survival of Bonneville Cutthroat Trout". Utah State University. Retrieved October 13, 2012. 
  3. Behnke, Robert J. (1992). American Fisheries Society Monograph - Native Trout of Western North America 6. Bethesda, Maryland, USA: American Fisheries Society. 

Further reading

  • Trotter, Patrick C. (2008). Cutthroat: Native Trout of the West (2nd ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25458-9. 
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