7017

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7017
• Author: Starnes, W. C.
• Title: Colorado River Basin
• USFW Year: 1989.
• Copyright Material: NO

Dept., Phoenix. 293 p.
-- Provides maps of historic and present (as of 1973) ranges
and distributional discussions of all Gila taxa in Arizona,
including forms of robusta regarded as subspecific.
Minckley, W.L., D.A. Hendrickson and G.E. Bond. 1986. Geography
of western North American freshwater fishes: description and
relationships to intracontinental tectonism; pp. 519-614,
in: C.H. Hocutt & E.O. Wiley, eds., Zoogeography of North
American freshwater fishes. Wiley-Interscience, New York.
866 p.
Discusses distribution of members of the "Gila robusta
complex" in the Colorado River basin and in northwestern
Mexico from a biogeographic perspective.
Suttkus, R.D., and G.H. Clemmer. 1977. The humpback chub, Gila
cvpha, in the Grand Canyon area of the Colorado River. Occ.
Pap. Tulane Univ. Mus. Nat. Hist. 1. 30 p.
In material examined, gives localities for humpback chubs,
documented by specimens, from Grand Canyon (recent) and Glen
Canyon (1960s) areas and Green River in Utah.
Tanner, V.M. 1936. A study of the fishes of Utah. Utah Acad.
Sci., Arts, Let. 13:155-177.
Lists G. robusta from Green and Colorado rivers in Utah and
seminuda from the Virgin River at St. George.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1980. Bonytail chub:
determination as an endangered species. Fed. Reg.
45(80):27710-27713.
Discusses historic and recent distribution of G. elegans as
of 1980. Not as up-to-date on distribution as the bonytail
recovery plan (Colorado Fishes Recovery Team, above).
Valdez, R.A. 1985. A review of the hatchery program for
threatened and endangered fishes of the Colorado River.
Ecosyst. Res. Inst. Rpt. to Colo. Water Congr. 31 p.
Provides information on the localities from which brood stock
for humpback, bonytail, and roundtail chubs used in
propagation and hybridization experiments were procured and
localities of reintroduction. Most notable is the
introduction of humpback stock possibly derived from both
Little Colorado and Black Rocks stock into the Cataract
Canyon area. Except for a few individual used in tracking
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