7017

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

Gives additional characters for Gila emoryi (=elegans) from
specimens obtained from Gila River.
1891. Jordan, D.S. Report of explorations in Colorado and Utah
during the summer of 1889, with an account of the fishes
found in each of the river basins examined. Bull. U.S. Fish
Comm. 9 (1889) :1-40.
Informally synonymizes several of the nominal species
mentioned in previous citations, including grahami, affinis,
and nacrea with robusta and emoryi with elegans.
1895. Evermann, B.W., and C. Rudder. The fishes of the Colorado
River. Bull. U.S. Fish. Comm. 14 (1894):473-486.
Provides a bibliography of previous fish descriptions from
the Colorado River basin and tabulated synonymies for the
species described therein; recognizes as species robusta,
elegans and seminuda in Gila and intermedia and its current
synonym nigra in Leuciscus.
1896. Jordan, D.S., and B.W. Evermann. The fishes of North and
Middle America: A descriptive catalog of the species of
fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America,
north of the Isthmus of Panama. Bull. U.S. Nat. Museum 47.
Pt. 1. 954 p.
Provides descriptions and synonymies in agreement with
the two preceeding publications above and also suggests that
nigra might not be distinct from intermedia.
1902. Meek, S.E. A contribution to the ichthyology of Mexico.
Field Col. Mus. Zool. Ser. 8(6):63-128.
Contains the original description of Gila minacae (from Rio
Yaqui headwaters, MX), a form allied to or possibly
conspecific with G. robusta.
1904. Meek, S.E. The freshwater fishes of Mexico north of the
Ishmus of Tehuantepec Field Columb. Mus. Zool. Ser. 5. 252
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Gives additional characters for minacae and intermedia as
well as the related G. nigrescens (inclusive of several
synonymous forms, some since reelevated, e.g., conspersa,
pulchra, etc.).
1914. Ellis, M.M. Fishes of Colorado. Univ. Colo. Stud. 11.
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