lewisi

They did not realize that the upper Columbia basin cutthroat trout with the brighter coloration and smaller, irregularly shaped spots also is native to the upper Missouri River and to the South Saskatchewan River basin of Montana and Alberta, Canada and that it had been given the name lewisi in 1856.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

In reality, it was the Yellowstone cutthroat trout that was in need of a new subspecies name because the name lewisi is forever fixed to the type specimen and type locality of the Missouri River below the Great Falls and wherever else this same subspecies occurs.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

They did not realize that the upper Columbia basin cutthroat trout with the brighter coloration and smaller, irregularly shaped spots also is native to the upper Missouri River and to the South Saskatchewan River basin of Montana and Alberta, Canada and that it had been given the name lewisi in 1856.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

In reality, it was the Yellowstone cutthroat trout that was in need of a new subspecies name because the name lewisi is forever fixed to the type specimen and type locality of the Missouri River below the Great Falls and wherever else this same subspecies occurs.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

This erroneous scenario led Jordan and Evermann to apply the name lewisi to the cutthroat trout of both the Missouri and the Yellowstone River drainages.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

In reality, it was the Yellowstone cutthroat trout that was in need of a new subspecies name because the name lewisi is forever fixed to the type specimen and type locality of the Missouri River below the Great Falls and wherever else this same subspecies occurs.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

This erroneous scenario led Jordan and Evermann to apply the name lewisi to the cutthroat trout of both the Missouri and the Yellowstone River drainages.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

In reality, it was the Yellowstone cutthroat trout that was in need of a new subspecies name because the name lewisi is forever fixed to the type specimen and type locality of the Missouri River below the Great Falls and wherever else this same subspecies occurs.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

They did not realize that the upper Columbia basin cutthroat trout with the brighter coloration and smaller, irregularly shaped spots also is native to the upper Missouri River and to the South Saskatchewan River basin of Montana and Alberta, Canada and that it had been given the name lewisi in 1856.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

This erroneous scenario led Jordan and Evermann to apply the name lewisi to the cutthroat trout of both the Missouri and the Yellowstone River drainages.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002