Bear lake whitefish (Prosopium abyssicola) distribution and status by HUC8

Aug 17, 2012 (Last modified Feb 18, 2022)
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Bear lake whitefish (Prosopium abyssicola) status data created for the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society (WDAFS)

Kennedy, B.M., Thompson, B.W. and Luecke, C., 2006. Ecological differences between two closely related morphologically similar benthic whitefish (Prosopium spilonotus and Prosopium abyssicola) in an endemic whitefish complex. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63: 1700-1709.

Broughton, J.M., 2000. Terminal Pleistocene fish remains from Homestead Cave, Utah, and implications for fish biogeography in the Bonneville Basin. Copeia 2000: 645-656.

Tolentino, S.A. and Thompson, B.W., 2004. Meristic differences, habitat selectivity and diet separation of Prosopium spilonotus and P. abyssicola. Annales Zoologici Fennici 41: 309-317.

Ward, A., 2001. Morphometric evaluation of the whitefish complex in Bear Lake, Utah/Idaho. MS Thesis Utah State University.
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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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