Desert pupfish (Cyprinodon macularius) distribution and status by HUC8

Aug 8, 2012 (Last modified Jan 19, 2022)
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Desert pupfish (Cyprinodon macularius) 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.

Robinson, A. T., and D. L. Ward. 2011. Interactions between desert pupfish and Gila Topminnow can affect reintroduction success. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 31:1093-1099.

Schoenherr, A. A. 1988. A Review of the Life History and Status of the Desert Pupfish, Cyprinodon macularius. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences: 87(3):104-134.

Varela-Romero, A., G. Ruiz-Campos, L. M. Yepiz-Velazquez, and J. Alanız-Garcıa. 2002. Distribution, habitat and conservation status of desert pupfish (Cyprinodon macularius) in the Lower Colorado River Basin, Mexico. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 12:157–165.

Martin, B. A., and M. K. Saiki. 2005. Relation of desert pupfish abundance to selected environmental variables in natural and manmade habitats in the Salton Sea basin. Environmental Biology of Fishes 73:97–107.
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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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