Whitehorse Basin cutthroat trout
The Whitehorse Basin cutthroat trout refers to a population segment of the cutthroat trout complex (Oncorhynchus clarkii) from the streams of the Whitehorse Basin (or the Coyote Basin[1]), southeastern Oregon. It is alternatively considered as a part of the Lahontan cutthroat trout subspecies (Oncorhynchus clarkii henshawi),[2][3] or of the Humboldt cutthroat trout (O. c. humboldtensis) whose main range is in Nevada.[4]
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Notes
- Oregon Native Fish Status Report – Volume II (PDF). Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- U.S. Department of the Interior. Oregon Wilderness: Environmental Impact Statement. 4. Bureau of Land Management.
- Species Fact Sheet: Lahontan cutthroat trout, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
- Trotter, Patrick C.; Behnke, Robert J. (2008). "The Case for Humboldtensis: A Subspecies Name for the Indigenous Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii) of the Humboldt River, Upper Quinn River, and Coyote Basin Drainages, Nevada and Oregon". Western North American Naturalist. 68: 58. doi:10.3398/1527-0904(2008)68[58:TCFHAS]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1527-0904.
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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