Erimystax cahni (Hubbs & Crowe, 1956)
Slender chub
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Erroneously listed as Missing by (Greenwald et al., 2019)
Distribution & Habitat
Tennessee & Virginia, USA
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Burkhead, N. M. and Jenkins, R. E. (1982). Five-year status review of the slender chub, Hybopsis cahni, a threatened cyprinid fish of the upper Tennessee drainage. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Report, Newton Corners, Massachusetts.
Burkhead, N. M. and Jenkins, R. E. (1991). Fishes. In: in K. Terwilliger (coordinator) (ed.), Virginia's Endangered Species: Proceedings of a Symposium, pp. 321-409. McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company, Blacksburg, Virginia.
Coburn, M. M. and Cavender, T. M. (1992). Interrelationships of North American cyprinid fishes, pp. 328-373. In: Mayden, R. L. (ed.). Systematics, historical ecology, and North American freshwater fishes. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California.
Etnier, D. A. and Starnes, W. C. (1993). The fishes of Tennessee. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press.
Greenwald, Noah, Suckling, Kieran F., Hartl, Brett and Mehrhoff, L. A. (2019). Extinction and the U.S. Endangered Species Act. PeerJ 7: e6803 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6803 [Supplemental Information (Extinct or possibly extinct listed species)]
Jenkins, R.E. 1975. Status report of Hybopsis cahni. Unpublished report. Roanoke College, Virginia.
Jenkins, R.E. and Burkhead, N.M. 1994. Freshwater fishes of Virginia. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
Lee, D.S., Gilbert, C.R., Hocutt, C.H., Jenkins, R.E., McAllister, D.E. and Stauffer, J.R. Jr. 1980. Atlas of North American freshwater fishes. North Carolina State Museum of Natural History, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Mayden, R.L. 1989. Phylogenetic studies of North American minnows, with emphasis on the genus Cyprinella (Teleostei: Cypriniformes). University of Kansas Museum Natural History Miscellaneous Publication 80: 1-189.
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Page, L.M. and Burr, B.M. 1991. A field guide to freshwater fishes: North America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts.
Page, L.M. and Burr, B.M. 2011. Peterson field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Simons, A.M. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships in the genus Erimystax (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae) based on the cytochrome b gene. Copeia 2004: 351-356.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). 1990. Endangered and threatened species recovery program: report to Congress. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (2014). 5-Year Review: Slender Chub (Erimystax (=Hybopsis) cahni). https://ecos.fws.gov/docs/five_year_review/doc4357.pdf