The food and game fishes of New York: . NEW YORK. 129 60. Lake Tahoe Trout; Red-throat Trout {Sa//uo /w/is/iatai Gill ik ]ovdan). (Introduced.) Si!//it> luiislujai &r Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 2, 358, 1S78, Lake Tahoe ; Rept. Chief Eng., part 3, 1878, .\pp. NN, 1619, pi. var. lunshawi ]oK\)Kfi & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. .S. Nat. Mus., 316, mykiss (heney, Third Ann. Rept. N. Y. Comm. , 239, color pi. facing p. 238, mykiss hens/iawi ];i, Bull. U. S. F. C, IX, 14, pi. II, fig. 5, 1891 ; Jord. & EvERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 49
The food and game fishes of New York: . NEW YORK. 129 60. Lake Tahoe Trout; Red-throat Trout {Sa//uo /w/is/iatai Gill ik ]ovdan). (Introduced.) Si!//it> luiislujai &r Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 2, 358, 1S78, Lake Tahoe ; Rept. Chief Eng., part 3, 1878, .\pp. NN, 1619, pi. var. lunshawi ]oK\)Kfi & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. .S. Nat. Mus., 316, mykiss (heney, Third Ann. Rept. N. Y. Comm. , 239, color pi. facing p. 238, mykiss hens/iawi ];i, Bull. U. S. F. C, IX, 14, pi. II, fig. 5, 1891 ; Jord. & EvERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 493, clarkli hcnsJuuci Jordan & Evermann, op. cit. 2819, pi. LXXIX, fig. 208, 1900. Body elongate, not much compressed, its greatest depth one-fourth of the totallength without caudal; caudal peduncle rather long, its least depth equaling two-fifths of the length of the head ; head hang, conical, slender, its length containedabout 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 topectoral, which is three-fifths of length of head; gill rakers short and stout, about18 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, itslast rays two-thirds as long as the highest; anal fin rather high ; caudal short anddistinctly forked. D. 9 to ii ; A. 12; B. 10. Scales 27 to 37-160 to 200-27 to 40;pyloric c^ca 50 to 60. Color dark green in life, varying to pale green ; the sides silvery with a broadcoppery shade which extends also on the cheeks and opercles ; a yellowish tinge onthe 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 finwith similar spots, and a few on the anal; belly with black spots. The Tahoe Trout is a large species inhabiting
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