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Snake River fine-spotted cutthroat trout

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709: 1009: 363: 274: 996: 73: 1002: 50: 1178: 824: 31: 249:, and from its unusual pattern of hundreds of small spots that cover most of its body, differing from the larger-spotted Yellowstone cutthroat pattern. Genetically, it cannot be distinguished from the Yellowstone cutthroat trout, and before the construction of dams, no physical barriers were between the ranges of the two subspecies in the Snake River drainage. 419:
In addition to their natural aversion to cross-breeding with other trout, fine-spotted cutthroats are unusual in their pursuit of a vertebrate diet, mainly other fish, but occasionally including small mammals. While the fine-spotted cutthroats can be very selective feeders during a major hatch of
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crosses are observed in the South Fork of the Snake River in Idaho, they are infrequently encountered and appear to be
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in 1995 in a popular book by columnist M. R. Montgomery, to honor the fisheries research of Dr.
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p. 175. The Free Press, New York, NY. (Simon & Schuster, electronic version 2010)
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aquatic invertebrates, they are not as focused as rainbow or
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Salmoniformes
Salmonidae
Oncorhynchus
O. clarkii
Trinomial name
Cutthroat trout
cutthroat trout
subspecies
Yellowstone cutthroat trout
Snake River
Idaho
Wyoming
scientifically named
Robert J. Behnke
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rainbow trout
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