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Silver trout

The name "silver trout" is also sometimes used for rainbow trout.

Silver trout
Male (top) and female (bottom)

Extinct (1930)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Presumed Extinct (1930)  (NatureServe)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Genus: Salvelinus
Subgenus: Baione
Species:
S. agassizii
Binomial name
Salvelinus agassizii
(Garman, 1885)
Synonyms

Salvelinus fontinalis agassizii

The silver trout (Salvelinus agassizii) is an extinct char species or subspecies that inhabited a few waters in New Hampshire in the United States prior to 1939, when a biological survey conducted on the Connecticut watershed by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department found none.

  1. ^ World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Salvelinus agassizii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T19873A9089084. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T19873A9089084.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0".

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