Colorado pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius) distribution and status by HUC8

Aug 21, 2012 (Last modified Apr 6, 2021)
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Colorado pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius) status data created for the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society (WDAFS)

Houston, D.D., Ogden, T.H., Whiting, M.F. and Shiozawa, D.K., 2010. Polyphyly of the pikeminnows (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) inferred using mitochondrial DNA sequences. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 139:303-315.

Irving, D., and T. Modde. 2000. Home-range fidelity and use of historical habitat by adult Colorado squawfish (Ptychocheilus lucius) in the White River, Colorado and Utah. Western North American Naturalist 60:16–25.

Franssen, N. R., and S. L. Durst. 2013. Prey and non-native fish predict the distribution of Colorado Pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius) in a south-western river in North America. Ecology of Freshwater Fishes 23:395-404.

Tyus, H. M., and C. W. McAda. 1984. Migration, movements and habitat preference of Colorado squawfish, Ptychocheilus lucius, in the Green, White and Yampa rivers, Colorado and Utah. Southwestern Naturalist 29:289–299.

Osmundson, D. B., and G. C. White. 2017. Long-term mark-recapture monitoring of a Colorado Pikeminnow Ptychocheilus lucius population: assessing recovery progress using demographic trends. Endangered Species Research 34:131-147.
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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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