Talk:Golden trout

Name Disparity
Why is this page called Golden Trout but the fish is called Pink Trout? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.187.0.164 (talk) 22:37, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * (This referred to a much older version of the Wikipedia article, which called the species "pink trout"; google shows no other occurrence of the name used for this species). Agyle (talk) 16:20, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

3 subspecies?
This article is unusual in covering three subspecies in a single article. The taxobox won't even list more than one trinomial name. ITIS only accepts two of the three proposed subspecies (whitei and gilberti). I understand these may be more closely related than they are to other O. mykiss subspecies, but it's an odd way to structure the article. I'd suggest splitting this into three articles:


 * Oncorhynchus aguabonita (or O. m. aguabonita, with an authoritative citation)
 * Oncorhynchus mykiss whitei
 * Oncorhynchus mykiss gilberti

Agyle (talk) 14:46, 27 December 2013 (UTC)


 * I tend to agree with you on this. Lumping the three together complicates discussing the individual nature of each subspecies.  Behnke (2002), the preeminent authority on North American salmonids, considers the both the South Fork Kern and Golden Trout creek forms to be O. m. aguabonita, while O. m. whitei (Little Kern) is a minor subspecies.  The Kern River rainbow on the other hand O. m. gilberti is a separate subspecies of the rainbow more closely related to O. m. gairdneri (redband) than to O. m. aquabonita. Recognizing this more than a month ago as I worked on the rainbow trout article, I've started drafting a Kern River rainbow trout article.  I suspect we will eventually get this broken into three separate articles. --Mike Cline (talk) 15:07, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

California state "freshwater" fish
The Golden trout is the state freshwater fish of California (since 1947) "'Their striking appearance makes them easily recognizable, and led to California Golden trout becoming the official State fish of California in 1947'." I'm wondering why this is not stated in the article (at least I didn't see any) -  FlightTime  ( open channel ) 17:38, 1 September 2021 (UTC)