Description of a Previously Unknown Population of an Endangered Desert Fish, Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis

Authors

Alexander C. Jones, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Kent R. Mosher, Arizona Game and Fish Department
Clayton Crowder, Arizona Game and Fish Department

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Publication Title

The Southwestern Naturalist

Volume

61

Issue

4

First page number:

329

Last page number:

331

Abstract

We report a previously unknown population of Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis in La Barge Creek, a tributary stream to the Salt River in Arizona. The population inhabits a slick rock canyon with four permanent pools of water. Previous translocation efforts for P. o. occidentalis occurred more than 7 km upstream of the described location in Charlebois Spring; however, this species has not been observed at the translocation site recently. It is possible that the LaBarge Creek population emigrated from Charlebois Spring. Additional sampling is necessary to determine the source of this population. © 2017 The Author(s).

Disciplines

Desert Ecology | Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology

Language

English

Repository Citation

Jones, A. C., Mosher, K. R., Crowder, C. (2016). Description of a Previously Unknown Population of an Endangered Desert Fish, Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis. The Southwestern Naturalist, 61(4), 329-331.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1894/0038-4909-61.4.329