Humpback chub (Gila cypha) distribution and status by HUC8

Aug 14, 2012 (Last modified Apr 2, 2021)
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Humpback chub (Gila cypha) status data created for the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society (WDAFS)

Miller, R.R., 1946. Gila cypha, a remarkable new species of cyprinid fish from the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, Arizona. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 36: 409-415.

Stone, D.M. and Gorman, O.T., 2006. Ontogenesis of endangered humpback chub (Gila cypha) in the Little Colorado River, Arizona. The American Midland Naturalist 155: 123-135.

Rogowski, D.L., Osterhoudt, R.J., Mohn, H.E. and Boyer, J.K., 2018. Humpback Chub (Gila cypha) range expansion in the western Grand Canyon. Western North American Naturalist 78: 26-38.

Dzul, M.C., Yackulic, C.B., Stone, D.M. and Van Haverbeke, D.R., 2016. Survival, growth, and movement of subadult humpback chub, Gila cypha, in the Little Colorado River, Arizona. River Research and Applications 32: 373-382.

Pearson, K.N., Kendall, W.L., Winkelman, D.L. and Persons, W.R., 2015. Evidence for skipped spawning in a potamodromous cyprinid, humpback chub (Gila cypha), with implications for demographic parameter estimates. Fisheries Research 170: 50-59.
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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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