THE FOOD AND GAME FISHES OF NEW YORK. 



60. Lake Tahoe Trout ; Red-throat Trout {Salmo hoishaziu Gill & Jordan). 



(Introduced.) 



Sci/iiio hcnsliawi Gill & Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 2, 358, 1878, Lake Tahoe ; Rept. Chief 



Eng., part 3, 1878, App. NN, 1619, pi. IV. 

 Salmo purpuratus var. Jienshawi ^OKViWi & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 316, 1883. 

 Salmo mykiss Cheney, Third Ann. Rept. N. Y. Comm. Fish, 239, color pi. facing p. 238, 



1898. 

 Salmo myh'ss /iens/ia7eii ]OR'DA's, Bull. U. S. F. C, IX, 14, ])!. II, fig. 5, 1891 ; Jord.\n & 



EvERM.^NN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 493, 1896. 

 Salmo clarkii henshmvi Jordan & Everm.-\nn, op. cit. 2819, pi. LXXIX, fig. 208, 1900. 



Body elongate, not much compressed, its greatest depth one-fourth of the total 

 length without caudal ; caudal peduncle rather long, its least depth equaling two- 

 fifths of the length of the head ; head long, conical, slender, its length contained 

 about four times in the total to caudal base ; a slight keel on the top of the head ; 



LAKE TAHOE TROUT. 



snout obtusely pointed ; maxilla not extending far behind the eye, about equal to 

 pectoral, which is three-fifths of length of head ; gill rakers short and stout, about 

 18 on the first arch, of which 13 are below the angle; vomerine teeth in two long, 

 alternating series; hyoid teeth rather weak, in a small patch; dorsal fin small, its 

 last rays two-thirds as long as the highest ; anal fin rather high ; caudal short and 

 distinctly forked. D. 9 to 11 ; A. 1 2 ; B. 10. Scales 27 to 37-160 to 200-27 to 40 ; 

 pyloric caeca 50 to 60. 



Color dark green in life, varying to pale green ; the sides silvery with a broad 

 coppery shade which extends also on the cheeks and opercles ; a yellowish tinge on 

 the sides of the lower jaw and red or orange dashes between its rami ; back every- 

 where covered with large, roundish black spots; dorsal, adipose fin and caudal fin 

 with similar spots, and a few on the anal ; belly with black spots. 



The Tahoe Trout is a large species inhabiting Tahoe Lake, Pyramid Lake, Web- 

 ber Lake, Donner Lake, Independence Lake, Truckee River, Humboldt River, 

 Carson River, and most streams of the cast slope of the Sierra Nevada ; it occurs 



