7113 ‎(2)‎

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7113
• Author: La Rivers, I.
• Title: Fishes and Fisheries of Nevada.
• USFW Year: 1962.
• USFW - Doc Type: Fishes and Fisheries of Nevada.
• Copyright Material: YES

114 FISHES AND MHERIES OF NEVADA
Fishes Successfully Introduced Into the Colorado River System
(A) SHAD FAMILY, Family Clupeidae
1. Mississippi Threadfin Shad (Dorosoma petenense atehafalayae)
(B) SALMON AND TROUT FAMILY, Family Salmonidae
2. Rainbow Trout (Salmo gairdneri)
3. Brown Trout (Salmo trutta)
(C) SUCKER FAMILY, Family Catostomidae
4. Dusky Mountainsucker (Pantosteus sp.)
(D) CARP AND MINNOW FAMILY, Family Cyprinidae
5. Asiatic Carp (Cyprinus carpio)
6. Golden Shiner (3'otcmigonus crysolcucas)
(E) CATFISH FAMILY, Family Ictaluridae
7. Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
8. Black Bullhead (Ictalurus melas)
(F) TOPMINNOW FAMILY, Family Poeciliidae
9. Mosquitofish (GambusiaafjEnis)
10. Black Molly (Mollicncsialatipinna)
11. Swordtail (Xiphophorus helleri)
12. Moonfish (Xiphophorus maculatus) (Platy)
(G) SUNFISH FAMILY, Family Centrarchidae
13. Largemouth Blaekbass (Micropterus salmoides)
14. Bluegill Sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus)
15. Green Sunfish (Lepontis cyanelltts)
16. Black Crappie (Pomoxis nigrontaculattts)
E-The Amargosa River System'
(1) HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE
This abbreviated drainage system of extreme southwestern Nevada
and adjacent California is perhaps the most shattered of the relict
drainages of the State. Modern Amargosa River is little but a travesty
on the name, its course now largely occupied by a perennially dry bcil
except at its headwaters and at certain intermittent points, far-space(l.
dowu-channel.
About 175 miles in total length, the Anthrgosa heads west of 7,425-
foot Timber Mountain above Beatty (southern Nye County) and
courses southerly throu-it Ammrgosa Desert and Valley, respectively.
where it swings sharply west and enters the southern tip of Death
Valley. In its northerly path up through Death Valley it can be traced
'The simplest pronunciation of this word is the Spanish "Uh-marg-uh-sah"
rather than the cumbersome but typical Anglicization "Amar-go-suh," which
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usually degenerates to "Arena-gosa:" Means "!sitter water

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