Desert sucker (Catostomus clarkii) distribution and status by HUC8

Aug 6, 2012 (Last modified Apr 29, 2020)
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Desert sucker (Catostomus clarkii) status data created for the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society (WDAFS)

Minckley, W. L., and Paul C. Marsh. 2009. Inland Fishes of the Greater Southwest: Chronicle of a Vanishing Biota. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Clarkson, R. W., and W. L. Minckley. 1988. Morphology and Foods of Arizona Catostomid Fishes: Catostomus insignis, Pantosteus clarki, and Their Putative Hybrids. Copeia 1988(2):422-433.

Ivanyi, C. S. 1989. Selected aspects of the natural history of the desert sucker [Catostomus (Pantosteus) clarkii]. Master's thesis. University of Arizona, Tucosn.

O’Neill, M. O., and A. C. Gibb. 2014. Does Feeding Behavior Facilitate Trophic Niche Partitioning in Two Sympatric Sucker Species from the American Southwest? Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: Ecological and Evolutionary Approaches 87(1):65-76.

Bestgen, K. R., D. A. Hendrickson, D. M. Kubly, AND D. L. Propst. 1987. Movements and growth of fishes in the Gila River drainage, Arizona and New Mexico. The Southwestern Naturalist 32(3):351-356.
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US watershed boundaries from USGS - http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/huc.html, Canada watershed boundaries from Ministry on Sustainable Resource Management’s Fisheries Inventory Watershed Atlas - http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/gis/GISdata.html, Mexico fish distributions from Freshwater Fishes of Mexico (Miller and Minckley 2006), US fish distributions from each state's respective fish agency, Additional information may come from peer-reviewed literature, grey literature and agency reports, and scientific collection permit catch records
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