Gila bicolor ssp. nov. 'High Rock Springs tui chub'
High Rock Springs tui chub
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Burkhead, 2012)
Last record: 1989 (Suckling et al. 2004)
Estimated date of extinction: 1989 (Burkhead, 2012)
Distribution
California & Nevada, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Burkhead, Noel M. (2012). Extinction Rates in North American Freshwater Fishes, 1900–2010. BioScience 62(9): 798-808.
Jelks, Howard L., Walsh, Stephen J., Burkhead, Noel M., Contreras-Balderas, Salvador, Díaz-Pardo, Edmundo, Hendrickson, Dean A., Lyons, J., Mandrak, Nicholas E., McCormick, Frank, Nelson, Joseph F., Platania, Steven P., Porter, Brady A., Renaud, Claude B., Schmitter-Soto, Juan Jacabo, Taylor, Eric B. and Warren, Melvin L. Jr. (2008). Conservation status of imperiled North American freshwater and diadromous fishes. Fisheries 33(8): 372-407.
Moyle, P.B. 2002. Inland Fishes of California. Revised and Expanded. Berkeley: University of California Press 502 pp.
Suckling, Kieran, Slack, Rhiwena and Nowicki, Brian. (2004). Extinct and the Endangered Species Act. Centre For Biological Diversity. 63 pp.
USFWS. 1997. Notice of Reclassification of Ten Candidate Taxa. United States Fish and Wildife Service, September 19, 1997, 62 FR 49191.
http://fl.biology.usgs.gov/documents/List_of_extinct_NA_fishes.pdf