Whitehorse Basin cutthroat trout

Willow-Whitehorse Basin cutthroat trout
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Salmoniformes
Family:	Salmonidae
Genus:	Oncorhynchus
Species:	O. clarkii
Population:	Willow-Whitehorse Basin cutthroat trout

The Willow-Whitehorse Basin cutthroat trout refers to a population segment of the cutthroat trout complex, specifically the Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus henshawii), ^{[1] [2]} from the streams of the Whitehorse Basin (or the Coyote Basin ^[3] ), southeastern Oregon. These fish have adapted to live under extreme conditions, and can withstand water temperatures as high as 85 °F for short periods of time. ^[4]

Notes

1. Trotter, P., P. Bisson, B. Roper, L. Schultz, C. Ferraris, G.R. Smith and R.F. Stearley. 2018. A special workshop on the taxonomy and evolutionary biology of cutthroat trout. Pages 1–31 in Trotter P, Bisson P, Schultz L, Roper B (editors). Cutthroat Trout: Evolutionary Biology and Taxonomy. Special Publication 36, American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
2. Peacock, M.M., H.M. Neville and A.J. Finger. 2018. The Lahontan basin evolutionary lineage of cutthroat trout. Pages 231–259 in P. Trotter, P. Bisson, L. Schultz and B. Roper editors. Cutthroat trout: evolutionary biology and taxonomy. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 36. American Fisheries Society. Bethesda, Maryland.
3. Oregon Native Fish Status Report – Volume II (PDF). Retrieved 1 May 2016.
4. Peacock, Mary M.; Robinson, Morgan L.; Walters, Timothy; Mathewson, Heather A.; Perkins, Ray (March 2010). "The Evolutionarily Significant Unit Concept and the Role of Translocated Populations in Preserving the Genetic Legacy of Lahontan Cutthroat Trout". Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 139 (2): 382–395. Bibcode:2010TrAFS.139..382P. doi:10.1577/T09-039.1. ISSN   0002-8487.

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.