Template:Did you know nominations/Mexican native trout
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The result was: promoted by Ohc ¡digame! 03:12, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
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Mexican native trout edit
- ... that the Rio Presidio trout of the Mexican native trout represents the southernmost natural distribution of any member of the family Salmonidae?
- ALT1:... the Conchos trout of the Mexican native trout found in the Rio Conchos in the Sierra Madre Occidental is the only rainbow trout subspecies native to an Atlantic ocean drainage?
- Reviewed: Edward Carey
Created by Mike Cline (talk). Self nominated at 16:31, 12 February 2014 (UTC).
Date, size, refs are fine. I can confirm the primary hook, but I am having a bit of a trouble confirming the second one, probably due to being a total non-expert confused by the jargon. If anyone wants to pass the second one, I'd appreciate an explanation here - best to cite which sentences in the text support it. PS. While not required, an image would be nice, and shouldn't be too difficult to obtain, I'd think? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 23:47, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
- The second hook may be a bit of synthesis. Oncorhynchus mykiss, rainbow trout are native to Pacific basin tributaries. This is confirmed by many sources, including Behnke (2002). There is one rainbow trout form, the Athabasca rainbow trout that is native to an Arctic Sea drainage. All of the Mexican native trout, with the exception of Oncorhynchus chrysogaster are considered O. m. subspecies (Behnke and others). Thus based on the quote below (source cited in article) the Conchos trout (2005) is the only rainbow trout subspecies in an Atlantic basin drainage.
A broad-scale survey of potential trout habitats in upper tributaries of the Río Conchos of Chihuahua, México resulted in the re-discovery in 2005 of a long-lost native, endemic, and now endangered, undescribed trout species that we call the “Conchos Trout.” We are currently in the process of scientifically describing this rare trout, the only native Mexican trout known from an Atlantic drainage.
- As far as I can find, copyright free images are not available. I am trying to contact primary author of many of the sources, a professor at the University of Texas, to see if some imagery might be released to the commons for the article. --Mike Cline (talk) 00:55, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you for the explanation. If you won't get a reply from that Texas academic, please send me his email and I'll back you up (as an academic maybe it could help). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:58, 13 February 2014 (UTC)