Humboldt cutthroat trout

Humboldt cutthroat trout
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Salmoniformes
Family:	Salmonidae
Genus:	Oncorhynchus
Species:	O. henshawi
Subspecies:	O. h. humboldtensis
Trinomial name
Oncorhynchus henshawi humboldtensis Trotter and Behnke, 2008 [1]

Main article: Cutthroat trout

The Humboldt cutthroat trout, Oncorhynchus henshawi humboldtensis, (formerly, Oncorhynchus clarkii humboldtensis) is a subspecies of Lahontan cutthroat trout, a North American fish in the family Salmonidae. It is one of the several subspecies of cutthroat trout. It was formally scientifically named in 2008 by Trotter and Behnke, who stated its distribution is in the basins of the upper Humboldt River of northern Nevada, the Upper Quinn River (Nevada and Oregon), as well as the Whitehorse (Coyote) basin (Oregon). ^[1] The Nevada and Oregon Fish and Wildlife authorities still consider these populations belonging to the subspecies O. c. henshawi (the Lahontan cutthroat trout). ^{[2] [3]}

In 2023 the American Fisheries Society Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 8^th edition reclassified all Cutthroat Trout from one species (formerly, Oncorhynchus clarkii) into four distinct species: Coastal, Lahontan, Westslope, and Rocky Mountain Cutthroat Trout. The Humboldt cutthroat trout retained their trinomial designation as a subspecies (humboldtensis), but as a subspecies of the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus henshawi).

References

1. Trotter, Patrick C.; Behnke, Robert J. (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. 68 (1): 58–65. doi:10.3398/1527-0904(2008)68[58:tcfhas]2.0.co;2. JSTOR   41717657. S2CID   84316986.
2. Species Fact Sheet: Lahontan cutthroat trout Archived 2015-01-05 at the Wayback Machine , U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Oregon Fish and Wildlife Office
3. Lahontan cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki henshawi. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Nevada Fish and Wildlife Office

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.
• Behnke, Robert J. (1992). American Fisheries Society Monograph - Native Trout of Western North America. Vol. 6. Bethesda, Maryland, United States: American Fisheries Society.