7017

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

Suttkus, R.D., G.H. Clemmer, C. Jones, and C.R. Shoop. 1976.
Survey of fishes, mammals and herpetofauna of the Colorado
River in Grand Canyon. Nat. Park Serv. Colo. R. Res. Prog.
Tech. Rpt. 5. 48 p.
Contains essentially same information as preceeding
reference.
Lower Basin--Gila River System
Chamberlain, F.M. 1904. Notes on fishes collected in Arizona,
1904. Unpub. Rpt. U.S. Nat. Museum, Wash. D.C. 70 pp.
Reports on collections made in 1904 in Arizona, later
identified by R.R. Miller and emended by W.C. Starnes at
USNM, as G. elegans from the Colorado River at Yuma; and
mostly G. intermedia from the San Pedro and Santa Cruz river
systems (including Monkey Spring in the upper Santa Cruz),
and Cienegas springs near Safford; and several other Gila
system tributaries.
Girard, C. 1859. Ichthyology of the boundary. Report of U.S.-
Mex. Bound. Surv. 3:1-85.
Basically reiterates earlier records treated in Baird and
Girard (1853a,b).
Kirsch, P.H. 1889. Notes on a collection of fishes obtained in
the Gila River, at Fort Thomas, Arizona, by Lieut. W.L.
Carpenter, U.S. Army. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 11 (1888):555-
558.
Reports 1889 collections of G. elegans (as emoryi) from the
upper Gila River at Ft. Thomas, AZ, which, if correctly
identified, may constitute the most upstream historic record
for this form.
Labounty, J.F., and W.L. Minckley. 1972. Native fishes of the
upper Gila River system, New Mexico; pp. 134-136, in:
Proceedings of a symposium of rare and endangered species of
the southwestern United States. New Mex. Dept. Game &
Fish., Albuquerque.
States that Gila robusta has disappeared from the upper Gila
River system in New Mexico, possibly last collected in 1967,
and that they were exceedingly abundant there in the 1950s.
States that declines are also in progress in the Black and
upper Salt systems in Arizona.
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