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Colo river cutthroat BLM🐟

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SpeciesSalmoniformesSalmonidae
Fish

🐟Cutthroat trout

Oncorhynchus clarkii (Richardson, 1836)

ノドキリマス（喉切鱒、Oncorhynchus clarkii）は、サケ科に属する魚である。原産地は北アメリカ。英語ではカットスロートトラウト（Cutthroat trout）と呼ばれる。

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≈ 1/6th of your weight
Also called
Oncorhynchus clarkii
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
10 kg
Body length
0.99 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
10 years
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Everything we know about the Cutthroat trout

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
10 kgrecord 19 kg · FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
0.99 mmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
10 yearsrecord 13 years · FishBase
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
4.01
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.01 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
10 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Cutthroat trout yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderSalmoniformes
  4. ›familySalmonidae
  5. ›genusOncorhynchus
  6. ›speciesOncorhynchus clarkii
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. familySalmonidae
  3. subfamilySalmoninae
  4. genusOncorhynchus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderSalmoniformes
  10. familySalmonidae
  11. subfamilySalmoninae
  12. genusOncorhynchus
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In other languages
Oncorhynchus clarkii (es), Oncorhynchus clarkii (fr), Łosoś Clarka (pl), Oncorhynchus clarkii (ca), punakurkkulohi (fi), Strupsnittsöring (sv) … and 16 more languages
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