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To: koan who wrote (43129)	6/23/2007 1:55:54 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) of 78425

State fish of Ahnoldia. They may be source of the gold in the sierras. Studies have found that the fish has a cyanobacteria in their gut that fixes gold into nodules in the bile duct that are then excreted into streams in the high mountains. Over time they have found their way into the lowlands precipitating the discovery of river gold in 1849. en.wikipedia.org The Golden Trout is an endemic organism to the Kern Plateau, Tulare County, California. It is a long lost relative to another California native, the Sea Run Coastal Rainbow Trout. This particular species had a wide geographic range, from Alaska to Mexico which gave way to many high density population pockets deep into the Sierra Nevada mountain range (Storer 1964). The pockets were well developed due to the connectivity of the California watershed and the Pacific Ocean. Coincidently, tectonic movement combined with glaciations and volcanoes the Kern Plateau in the southern region of the Sierra Nevada mountain range had formed. These geomorphic disturbances created a barrier for the trout around 20,000 years ago. High outlet falls, hanging valleys and volcanic lava cut off created this high elevation plateau for the trout (Curtis 1934). Isolated, and no longer able to be a migrating sea run fish like it’s soon to be ancestors, the Rainbow trout quickly began to adapt to its permanent high elevation habitat (see figure 2)

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