Oncorhynchus clarkii crescenti [citation needed] The Crescenti cutthroat trout or the Lake Crescent cutthroat trout is a North American freshwater fish, a local form (f.

[1] However the cutthroat trout of Lake Crescent do remain distinct.

They have the highest known gill raker and vertebrae counts of any coastal cutthroat population.

However, in the early 1980s a small cutthroat population was found in the Lyre River that spawns further downstream than the native rainbow trout.

Today the cutthroat of Barnes Creek have been hybridized with introduced rainbow into cutbows, but Crescenti cutthroat trout persist in the Lyre River as a genetically pure population (Behnke 1992).