Bonytail (Gila elegans) distribution and status by HUC8

Jul 27, 2011 (Last modified Apr 2, 2021)
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Bonytail (Gila elegans) 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.

Valdez, R. A., and G. H. Clemmer. 1982. LIFE HISTORY AND PROSPECTS FOR RECOVERY OF THE HUMPBACK AND BONYTAIL CHUB. Pages 109- 119 In: Fishes of the upper Colorado River system: present and future. Symposium of the Western Division, American Fisheries Society.

Bestgen, K. R., K. A. Zelasko, R. I. Compton, and T. E. Chart. 2008. Survival, Condition, Habitat Use, and Predation on Stocked Bonytails (Gila elegans) in the Green River, Colorado and Utah. The Southwestern Naturalist 53:488-494.

Marsh, P. C. 2004. Threatened fishes of the world: Gila elegans Baird & Girard 1853 (Cyprinidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 70:144.

Kappenman, K. M., E. S. Cureton, J. Ilgen, M. Toner, W. C. Fraser, and G. A. Kindschi. 2012. THERMAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE BONYTAIL (GILA ELEGANS): APPLICATION TO PROPAGATION AND THERMAL-REGIME MANAGEMENT OF RIVERS OF THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN. The Southwestern Naturalist 57:421-429.
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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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