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<br />,l. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br /> <br />." <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Figure 31. Speckled dacelpecesllO moleado from three <br />Anzona local Illes: Upper: Aravalpa Creek, 67 mm In tolal <br />length: Middle Beaver Dam Wash (Virgin River drainage), <br />71 mm: and Lower. Parla River canyon. 70 mm long <br /> <br />notoriously rurbld. and tloocJs \.lOltnrl~. roruu!:o ,I <br />narrow gorge (FIg. .~21; renlstJn,l.: In suco .i rtH:e <br />must reqUIre a umque hody shapt, plus remHkabok' <br />dd.iptations at 1('\"e1s orher tOJn retleered In <br />morpholoFY <br />Speckled d.ice in some other trlbu[arles. mcluding <br />those lower m the s~'stem. He f.ir less spect.!CuIJr. <br />~fam' are small JnJ round.boodled. With redua"d tIns <br />.ind ~e1atl\.ely brge, loosely overl.ippln,l.: scales. Tht.~. <br />live In qUle[ pools as wdl J.S riffles of creeks. <br />Speckled d,I(l: .ire Ilpponunistlc carnl\'ores, {et'dln~ <br />heaVIly on J.ljuatLC mH'US And other tnVenr-DrJ.res. <br />J.nd only O(clslonal!y on rbm materla!s <br />The lon!>,=fin dace (Fl~. nl, shared by [he C"lllf.iJn <br />;mJ Rio 't"aqUl systems. occun frtlrn uplands to <br /> <br /> <br />Figure 32. Paria River In Paria Canyon. Arizona. Photograph <br />by G. C. Kobetlch <br /> <br /> <br />Figure 33 Long!ln dacelcharalito aleta larga. 86 mm in total <br />length. from Arav81pa Creek, Anzona ThiS minnow. unlike <br />mosl western fishes, remainS relatively abundant through <br />much ollis onglnal range. It dIsperses rapidly from isolated <br />refuges when Intermittent desen washes begin to flow atter <br />rains. and was thought by early settlers 10 emerge from the <br />sand <br /> <br />17 <br /> <br />01101 <br />