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Westslope cutthroat trout, the Glossary

The westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi), also known as the black-spotted trout, common cutthroat trout and red-throated trout is a subspecies of the cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii) and is a freshwater fish in the salmon family (family Salmonidae) of order Salmoniformes.^[1]

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Natural history of Montana
Symbols of Montana
Taxa named by George Suckley

Alberta

Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Atlantic salmon

The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. Westslope cutthroat trout and Atlantic salmon are cold water fish.

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Barton Warren Evermann

Barton Warren Evermann (October 24, 1853 – September 27, 1932) was an American ichthyologist.

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Blue Mountains (Pacific Northwest)

The Blue Mountains are a mountain range in the northwestern United States, located largely in northeastern Oregon and stretching into extreme southeastern Washington.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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Brown trout

The brown trout (Salmo trutta) is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the genus Salmo, endemic to most of Europe, West Asia and parts of North Africa, and has been widely introduced globally as a game fish, even becoming one of the world's worst invasive species outside of its native range. Westslope cutthroat trout and brown trout are fish of the Western United States and freshwater fish of North America.

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Cascade Range

The Cascade Range or Cascades is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California.

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Coastal cutthroat trout

The coastal cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii clarkii), also known as the sea-run cutthroat trout, blue-back trout or harvest trout, is one of the several subspecies of cutthroat trout found in Western North America. Westslope cutthroat trout and coastal cutthroat trout are cold water fish, Fauna of the Northwestern United States, fish of Canada, fish of the Western United States, NatureServe apparently secure species and Oncorhynchus.

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Columbia River

The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: or; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

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Confluence

In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more watercourses join to form a single channel.

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Continental Divide of the Americas

The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Western Divide or simply the Continental Divide) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas.

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Cutbow

The cutbow (Oncorhynchus clarkii × mykiss) is an interspecific fertile hybrid between rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and cutthroat trout (O. clarkii). Westslope cutthroat trout and cutbow are Oncorhynchus.

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Cutthroat trout

The cutthroat trout is a fish species of the family Salmonidae native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean, Rocky Mountains, and Great Basin in North America. Westslope cutthroat trout and cutthroat trout are cold water fish, Fauna of the Northwestern United States, Fauna of the Rocky Mountains, fish of Canada, fish of the Western United States, freshwater fish of North America, freshwater fish of the United States and Oncorhynchus.

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David Starr Jordan

David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Flathead Lake

Flathead Lake (Salish, yawuʔnik̓ ʔa·kuq̓nuk) is a large natural lake in northwest Montana, United States.

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Flathead River

The Flathead River (člq̓etkʷ ntx̣ʷetkʷ, ntx̣ʷe, kananmituk), in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Montana, originates in the Canadian Rockies to the north of Glacier National Park and flows southwest into Flathead Lake, then after a journey of, empties into the Clark Fork.

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Fly fishing

Fly fishing is an angling technique that uses an ultra-lightweight lure called an artificial fly, which typically mimics small invertebrates such as flying and aquatic insects to attract and catch fish.

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Fraser River

The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for, into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of Vancouver.

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Fresh water

Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids.

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Gallatin River

The Gallatin River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 120 mi (193 km) long, in the U.S. states of Wyoming and Montana.

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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.

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George Suckley

George Suckley (1830–1869) was an American physician and naturalist notable as an explorer of the Washington and Oregon territories in the 1850s, and describer of several new fish species.

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Glacier National Park (U.S.)

Glacier National Park is an American national park located in northwestern Montana, on the Canada–United States border, adjacent to Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada—the two parks are known as the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. Westslope cutthroat trout and Glacier National Park (U.S.) are natural history of Montana.

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Great Falls (Missouri River)

The Great Falls of the Missouri River are a series of waterfalls on the upper Missouri River in north-central Montana in the United States. From upstream to downstream, the five falls along a segment of the riverCutright, Paul Russell, and Johnsgard, Paul A. Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists. 2d ed.

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Great Falls, Montana

Great Falls is the third most populous city in the U.S. state of Montana and the county seat of Cascade County.

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Habitat destruction

Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.

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Idaho

Idaho is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Isaac Stevens

Isaac Ingalls Stevens (March 25, 1818 – September 1, 1862) was an American military officer and politician who served as governor of the Territory of Washington from 1853 to 1857, and later as its delegate to the United States House of Representatives.

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Jefferson River

The Jefferson River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long, in the U.S. state of Montana.

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John Day River

The John Day River is a tributary of the Columbia River, approximately long, in northeastern Oregon in the United States.

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John Richardson (naturalist)

Sir John Richardson FRS FRSE (5 November 1787 – 5 June 1865) was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer.

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Judith River

The Judith River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 124 mi (200 km) long, running through central Montana in the United States.

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Kokanee salmon

The kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also known as the kokanee trout, little redfish, silver trout, kikanning, Kennerly's salmon, Kennerly's trout, or Walla, is the non-anadromous form of the sockeye salmon (meaning that they do not migrate to the sea, instead living out their entire lives in freshwater). Westslope cutthroat trout and kokanee salmon are fish of Canada, freshwater fish of the United States and Oncorhynchus.

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Lake trout

The lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Westslope cutthroat trout and lake trout are freshwater fish of the United States.

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Lake whitefish

The lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) is a species of freshwater whitefish from North America. Westslope cutthroat trout and lake whitefish are fish of the Western United States, freshwater fish of North America and freshwater fish of the United States.

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase.

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Lewis River (Washington)

The Lewis River is a tributary of the Columbia River, about long, in southwestern Washington in the United States.

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Local extinction

Local extinction, also extirpation, is the termination of a species (or other taxon) in a chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere.

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Madison River

The Madison River is a headwater tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 183 miles (295 km) long, in Wyoming and Montana.

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Meriwether Lewis

Meriwether Lewis (August 18, 1774 – October 11, 1809) was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark.

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Milk River (Alberta–Montana)

Milk River is a tributary of the Missouri River, long, in the U.S. state of Montana and the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Missouri River

The Missouri River is a river in the Central and Mountain West regions of the United States.

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Montana

Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Morphology (biology)

Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

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Multnomah people

The Multnomah are a tribe of Chinookan people who live in the area of Portland, Oregon, in the United States.

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North Saskatchewan River

The North Saskatchewan River is a glacier-fed river that flows from the Canadian Rockies continental divide east to central Saskatchewan, where it joins with the South Saskatchewan River to make up the Saskatchewan River.

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Order (biology)

Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Pacific Railroad Surveys

The Pacific Railroad Surveys (1853–1855) were a series of explorations of the American West designed to find and document possible routes for a transcontinental railroad across North America.

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Rainbow trout

The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in North America and Asia. Westslope cutthroat trout and rainbow trout are cold water fish, Fauna of the Rocky Mountains, fish of Canada, fish of the Western United States, freshwater fish of North America, freshwater fish of the United States and Oncorhynchus.

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Robert J. Behnke

Dr.

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Salmo

Salmo is a genus of ray-finned fish from the subfamily Salmoninae of family Salmonidae, and is part of the tribe Salmonini along with the sister genera Salvelinus and Salvethymus.

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Salmon

Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.

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Salmonidae

Salmonidae (lit. "salmon-like") is a family of ray-finned fish that constitutes the only currently extant family in the order Salmoniformes (lit. "salmon-shaped"), consisting of 11 extant genera and over 200 species collectively known as "salmonids" or "salmonoids".

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Snake River

The Snake River is a major river in the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Type (biology)

In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally associated.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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William Clark

William Clark (August 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838) was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor.

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Yellowstone cutthroat trout

The Yellowstone cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri) is a subspecies of the cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii). Westslope cutthroat trout and Yellowstone cutthroat trout are fish of the Western United States, freshwater fish of the United States, NatureServe apparently secure species and Oncorhynchus.

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Yellowstone River

The Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long, in the Western United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westslope_cutthroat_trout

Also known as Black-spotted cutthroat trout, Blackspotted Cutthroat Trout, Montana state fish, Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi.

, Pacific Ocean, Pacific Railroad Surveys, Rainbow trout, Robert J. Behnke, Salmo, Salmon, Salmonidae, Snake River, Type (biology), Washington (state), William Clark, Yellowstone cutthroat trout, Yellowstone River.

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See also

Natural history of Montana

Symbols of Montana

Taxa named by George Suckley

References