Fish in Colorado

Colordo's State Fish is the Greenback Cutthroat Trout waterknowledge.colostate.edu/cutthroa.htm

Brown trout, caught 25 June 2007 in Eleven Mile Lake.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Genus: Salmo
Species: S. trutta

Smallmouth Bass, caught 31 August 2007 in Pueblo Lake.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Centrarchidae
Genus: Micropterus
Species: M. dolomieu

Northern Pike, caught on 23 September 2003 on Eleven Mile Lake, Colorado

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Superorder: Protacanthopterygii
Order: Esociformes
Family: Esocidae
Genus: Esox
Species: E. lucius

This Carp was caught on 18 May 2003 on Pueblo Lake, Colorado.

The second picture shows two very young fish, taken 20 August 2008 at the Fountain Creek Nature Center. I believe that the only fish in those ponds are Carp, so I assume that these are newly hatched Carp. They are about 1/4" long, too young to identify otherwise.

The third picture is a 13" or 14" inch Carp at the Fountain Creek Nature Center, on 12 March 2010.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae



Rainbow trout. The first one was caught on 10 September 2001, at Eleven Mile Lake. It measured 15 1/2".

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Genus: Oncorhynchus
Species: O. mykiss


Caught 31 May 2007 at Pueblo Lake, 20 inches long.
Another Rainbow Trout, that I originally thought was a Kokanee Salmon, 14", caught at Eleven mile lake on 8 July 2011.

Dan Dunaway, University of Alaska at Dillingham, corrected me in January 2013.