Rio Grande cutthroat trout

Rio Grande cutthroat trout
From the Conejos watershed in southern Colorado

Vulnerable  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Genus: Oncorhynchus
Species:
O. virginalis
Subspecies:
O. v. virginalis
Trinomial name
Oncorhynchus virginalis virginalis
(C. F. Girard, 1856)
Main article: Cutthroat trout

The Rio Grande cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus virginalis virginalis),[2] a member of the family Salmonidae, is found in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado in tributaries of the Rio Grande.[3][4]

It is one of 9 subspecies[2] of the Rocky Mountain cutthroat trout[2][5][6][7] native to the western United States, and is the state fish of New Mexico.[8] Cutthroat trout were the first New World trout encountered by Europeans when in 1541, Spanish explorer Francisco de Coronado recorded seeing trout in the Pecos River near Santa Fe, New Mexico. These were most likely Rio Grande cutthroat trout (O. v. virginalis).[9]

  1. ^ NatureServe (2 February 2024). "Oncorhynchus clarkii virginalis". NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia: NatureServe. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Trotter; Bisson; Schultz; Roper, eds. (2018). Cutthroat Trout: Evolutionary Biology and Taxonomy. American Fisheries Society. doi:10.47886/9781934874509. ISBN 978-1-934874-50-9.
  3. ^ Pritchard, Victoria; Cowley, David (2006). "Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout: A Technical Conservation Assessment" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-07-10.
  4. ^ Trotter, Patrick C. (2008). "Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout". Cutthroat: Native Trout of the West (2nd ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. pp. 421–447. ISBN 978-0-520-25458-9.
  5. ^ Fishery Science Consultant (retired) 4926 26th Avenue South, Seattle, Washington 98108, USA; Trotter, Patrick; Bisson, Peter; U.S. Forest Service (emeritus), Pacific Northwest Research Station 3625 83rd Avenue SW, Olympia, Washington 95812, USA, eds. (2018), "Cutthroat Trout: Evolutionary Biology and Taxonomy", American Fisheries Society, doi:10.47886/9781934874509.ch13, ISBN 978-1-934874-50-9, retrieved 2024-08-07 {{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: editors list (link)
  6. ^ Fishery Science Consultant (retired) 4926 26th Avenue South, Seattle, Washington 98108, USA; Trotter, Patrick; Bisson, Peter; U.S. Forest Service (emeritus), Pacific Northwest Research Station 3625 83rd Avenue SW, Olympia, Washington 95812, USA, eds. (2018), "Cutthroat Trout: Evolutionary Biology and Taxonomy", American Fisheries Society, doi:10.47886/9781934874509.ch1, ISBN 978-1-934874-50-9, retrieved 2024-08-07 {{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: editors list (link)
  7. ^ Fishery Science Consultant (retired) 4926 26th Avenue South, Seattle, Washington 98108, USA; Trotter, Patrick; Bisson, Peter; U.S. Forest Service (emeritus), Pacific Northwest Research Station 3625 83rd Avenue SW, Olympia, Washington 95812, USA, eds. (2018), "Cutthroat Trout: Evolutionary Biology and Taxonomy", American Fisheries Society, doi:10.47886/9781934874509.ch2, ISBN 978-1-934874-50-9, retrieved 2024-08-07 {{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: editors list (link)
  8. ^ "State Fish". About New Mexico. New Mexico Office of the Secretary of State. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  9. ^ Behnke, Robert J.; Tomelleri, Joseph R. (illustrator) (2002). "Cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki". Trout and Salmon of North America. The Free Press. p. 139. ISBN 0-7432-2220-2.