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Pantosteus sp. nov. 'Spring Valley'

Spring Valley sucker, Dusky mountain sucker

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Invalid (synonym)

 

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym)

Last record: 1938; 1950 (Mueller & Marsh, 2002)

 

Erroneously listed as Extinct by (Miller, 1961) according to (Miller et al., 1989:37).

 

Distribution & Habitat

Spring Valley, eastern Nevada, USA

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.

Miller, Robert Rush. (1961). Man and the changing fish fauna of the American southwest. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 46: 365-404.

Miller, Robert Rush, Williams, James D. and Williams, Jack E. (1989). Extinctions of North American fishes during the past century. Fisheries 14(6): 22-38.

Mueller, Gordon A. and Marsh, Paul C. (2002). Lost, a desert river and its native fishes: A historical perspective of the Lower Colorado River, Information and Technology Report USGS/BRD/ITR--2002-0010: U.S. Government Printing Office, Denver, CO. 69 pp.

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/1586/spring-valley-sucker

 

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