Bluehead sucker (Catostomus discobolus) distribution and status by HUC8

Jul 27, 2011 (Last modified Jun 16, 2020)
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Bezzerides, N. and K. Bestgen. 2002. Status review of Roundtail chub, Flannelmouth sucker, and bluehead sucker in the Colorado River Basin. Larval Fish Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

Fraser, G.S., D.L. Winkelman, K.R. Bestgen, and K.G. Thompson. 2017. Tributary use by imperiled Flannelmouth and Bluehead Suckers in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 146:858-870.

Klein, Z.B., M.J. Breen and M.C. Quist. 2017. Population characteristics and influence of discharge on Bluehead Sucker and Flannelmouth Sucker. Copeia 105(2):375-388

McDonald, D.B., T.L. Parchman, M.R. Bower, W.A. Hubert, and F.J. Rahel. 2008. An introduced and a native vertebrate hybridize to form a genetic bridge to a second native species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(31):10837-10842.

Sweet, D.E., R.I. Compton, and W.A. Hubert. 2009. Age and growth of Bluehead Suckers and Flannelmouth Suckers in headwater and tributaries, Wyoming. Western North American Naturalist 69(1):35-41.
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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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Western Division of the American Fisheries Society (WDAFS), http://www.wdafs.org/officers/officers.htm
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