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Little Kern golden trout

Oncorhynchus mykiss whitei

Classification

The Little Kern golden trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss whitei) is a brightly colored subspecies of rainbow trout native to the main stem and tributaries of the Little Kern River in Tulare County, California. Together with the California golden trout (the state fish of California) and the Kern River rainbow trout, the Little Kern golden trout forms what is sometimes referred to as the "golden trout complex" of the Kern River basin. Taxonomic history The evolutionary relationships between salmonoids are a matter of ongoing discovery, and there are different opinions about how specific…

Distribution

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