Mexican tetra (Astyanax mexicanus) distribution and status by HUC8

Jul 28, 2011 (Last modified Apr 23, 2021)
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Mexican tetra (Astyanax mexicanus) status data created for the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society (WDAFS)

Teyke, T. 1990. Morphological differences in neuromasts of the blind cave fish Astyanax hubbsi and the sighted river fish Astyanax mexicanus. Brain, behavior and evolution 35:23-30.

Maldonado, E., E. Rangel‐Huerta, E. Rodriguez‐Salazar, E. Pereida‐Jaramillo, and A. Martínez‐Torres. 2020. Subterranean life: Behavior, metabolic, and some other adaptations of Astyanax cavefish. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution.

Protas, M., M. Conrad, J. B. Gross, C. Tabin, and R. Borowsky. 2007. Regressive evolution in the Mexican cave tetra, Astyanax mexicanus. Current biology 17:452-454.

Sears, C.R., T. E. Boggs, and J. B. Gross. 2020. Dark‐rearing uncovers novel gene expression patterns in an obligate cave‐dwelling fish. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution.

Yoffe, M., K. Patel, E. Palia, S. Kolawole, A. Streets, G. Haspel, and D. Soares. 2020. Morphological malleability of the lateral line allows for surface fish (Astyanax mexicanus) adaptation to cave environments. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution.
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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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