7147

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7147
• Author: Holden, P. B. and C. B. Stalnaker
• Title: Distribution and Abundance of Mainstream Fishes of the Middle and Upper Colorado River Basins, 1967-1973
• USFW Year: 1975
• USFW - Doc Type: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
• Copyright Material: YES

HOLDEN AND STALNAKER-COLORADO RIVER FISHES

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TABLE I.-Distribution and abundance of fishes in the mainstream of the Colorado River basin above Lake
Mead, 1967-1971. (A = Abundant, C = Common, R = Rare, 0 = Occasional, * == Native)

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SaImonidae

Salmo gairdneri
Salmo trutto
Salma clarki
Prosopium williamsoni *

Cyprinidae

Gila atraria
Gila robusta'
Gila degam'
Gila cypha complex'
Plyc/wcheilus lucius'
Rhinichthys osculas'
Richardsoni"s balteatus
Pimel'hales promelas
Cyprinus carpio
Notropis lutrensis
Notropis stramineus
Scmolilus atromaculatus

Catostomidae

Catostomus latipinnis'"
Catostomus discobnlus *
C atostomllS commersoni
CatostOlnlls ealastomus
X yrauchen texanus *

Ictaluridae

[etalurus ]Junctaius
leI alums melas

Cyprinodolltidae

Fundullls zebrinus

Cenlrarchidae

i\1icropterus snlmoides
Lcpomis macrochirus
Lepomis cyanellus

Percidac

Stizos((!dion vitreum

CouiJae

C OUllS bairdi *

Hyhrids

Catmitomus [atipinnis X
Xyrauchcfl texanus
Catostomlls discobolu.s X
Galaslalnus commersoni
Calosto11luS lotipinn;s X
Catostomus cummersoni

'I Upper Yampa
2 Lower Yampa
3 Green (D1\'M)
4 Desolation Canyon

o 0
o 0
o
A 0

A A
R
R
R R
C A
C A
C C
C C
R

C

C A
A A
A R
R

R A
R

o
o
R

o

R

R
A R
R-C R

5 Green (CNP)
6 Colorado (CNP)
7 Colorado-Moab
8 Colorado-Grand Junction

ardson. Cutthroat trout were collect cd m
areas 2 and 3. Only eight were taken
during the study (Table 2). These fish are
considered wanderers from nearby cold
watcr areas where Ihey were stocked.
Mountain whilefish-Prosopiull1 williarn-
soni Girard. Mountain whitefish were
abundant 111 area ] and common m area 9.
Single spccltncns were caught 111 arcas 2

Locality.

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7

II

12

8

9

10

5

6

4

o
o
o
o

o

C

A

o

C

A
R
R
R
A
A
C
C
R

C

R
R
R
R
R
C
C
A

C

R

C

A

A

A

R
R
R
C
C
A

R

R
A
C
C
A

R

R
C
C
C
A
A

R
A
C
A
A
A

C
C

A
R
C

C
C
A

A
A
R
R

A
C

A
A

A
A
R
R

A
A

A

C
C

A
R

A
R

A
C

R

R

R

R

A
R

A
R

A
C

C

R

R

C

A

A
R

R

R

R

R

o
R

R
C

C

R
C

C
R

R

o

R

R

R

R

R

R

R

R

9 Colorado-Rifle
10 Lower Gunnison
11 Glen Canyon
12 Marble .lId Grand Canyon

and 3, apparently wanderers from area 1.
Juveniles were found m areas I and 9.

Cyprinidae

Utah chub--Gila atraria Girard. Only
two Utah ehubs were collected during the
present study, onc III area 4, the ot her Il1
area 6. They have been reported from the
upper Colorado basin by Smil h (1959),

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