Oncorhynchus clarkii stomias (Cope, 1871)
Greenback cutthroat trout, Green trout
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Salmo stomias Cope, 1871
Conservation Status
Last record: 1930's
Rediscovered in: 1957
"S. clarkii stomias, described from the Platte River, has not been taken in recent years"
(Miller, 1950:9)
Erroneously listed as Extinct by (Green, 1937) according to (Miller et al., 1989:37).
Distribution & Habitat
Colorado, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
Above: illustration by Aleta Pahel, published in Ono et al. (1983).
References
Original scientific description:
Cope, Edward Drinker. (1871). Recent reptiles and fishes: report on the reptiles and fishes obtained by the naturalists of the expedition. Pages 432-444 in F. V. Hayden, editor. Preliminary report of the U.S. Geological Survey of Wyoming and portions of contiguous territories (second annual report). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
Other references:
Behnke, R. J. (1992). Native trout of western North America. American Fisheries Society Monograph 6. xx + 275 pp.
Deacon, James E., Kobetich, Gail, Williams, James D. and Contreras, Salvador. (1979). Fishes of North America endangered, threatened, or of special concern: 1979. Fisheries 4(2): 29-44.
Greene, W. S. (1937). Colorado trout. Denver Mus. Nat. Hist. Popular Ser. 2. 48 pp.
Hildebrand, Samuel F. (1955). The trouts of North America: General remarks on classification. Fishery Leaflet 355: 1-13. [reissue of March 1955, with two additional bibliographic references that post-date the author's death (1949)]
Jelks, Howard L., Walsh, Stephen J., Burkhead, Noel M., Contreras-Balderas, Salvador, Díaz-Pardo, Edmundo, Hendrickson, Dean A., Lyons, J., Mandrak, Nicholas E., McCormick, Frank, Nelson, Joseph F., Platania, Steven P., Porter, Brady A., Renaud, Claude B., Schmitter-Soto, Juan Jacabo, Taylor, Eric B. and Warren, Melvin L. Jr. (2008). Conservation status of imperiled North American freshwater and diadromous fishes. Fisheries 33(8): 372-407.
Jordan, D. S. (1891). Report of explorations in Colorado and Utah during the summer of 1889, with an account of the fishes found in each of the river basins examined. Bulletin of the U.S. Fish Commission 9: 1-40.
Matthews, J. R. and Moseley, C. J. (eds.). (1990). The Official World Wildlife Fund Guide to Endangered Species of North America. Volume 1. Plants, Mammals. xxiii + pp 1-560 + 33 pp. appendix + 6 pp. glossary + 16 pp. index. Volume 2. Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Fishes, Mussels, Crustaceans, Snails, Insects, and Arachnids. xiii + pp. 561-1180. Beacham Publications, Inc., Washington, D.C.
Miller, Robert Rush. (1950). Notes on the cutthroat and rainbow trouts with the description of a new species from the Gila River, New Mexico. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 529: 1-42, pl. 1.
Miller, Robert Rush, Williams, James D. and Williams, Jack E. (1989). Extinctions of North American fishes during the past century. Fisheries 14(6): 22-38.
Ono, R. Dana, Williams, James D. and Wagner, Anne [with painting by Aleta Pahel]. (1983). Vanishing Fishes of North America. Washington DC: Stone Wall Press, Inc. 257 pp.
Smith, G. R. and Stearley, R. F. (1989). The classification and scientific names of rainbow and cutthroat trouts. Fisheries (Bethesda) 14(1):4-10.
Trotter, Patrick C. (2008). Cutthroat: Native Trout of the West (2nd ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Rubingh, Jim; Fritz, Richard (2009). Colorado Greenback Cutthroat Trout: A Fisherman's Guide. Portland, OR: Frank Amato Publishers.
Wickstrom, Gordon M. (1998). Bringing Back the Greenback: Oncoryhnchus clarki stomias. The American Fly Fisher. American Museum of Fly Fishing 24(4): 5-8.
Williams, Jack E., Johnson, James E., Hendrickson, Dean A., Contreras-Balderas, Salvador, Williams, James D., Navarro-Mendoza, Miguel, McAllister, Don E. and Deacon, James E. (1989). Fishes of North America endangered, threatened, or of special concern: 1989. Fisheries 14(6): 2-20 [4].
Young, M. K. and Harig, A. L. (2001). A critique of the recovery of greenback cutthroat trout. Conservation Biology 15: 1575-1584.
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