Research Catalog

Title

Vanishing fishes of North America / R. Dana Ono, James D. Williams, Anne Wagner ; paintings by Aleta Pahl.

Author

Ono, R. Dana (Richard Dana)

Publication

• Washington, D.C. : Stone Wall Press , [1983]
• Harrisburg, PA : Stackpole Books
• ©1983.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Williams, James D. (James David), 1941-
• Wagner, Anne
• Pahl, Aleta

Description

xiii, 257 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 26 cm

Subject

• Fishes > North America
• Endangered species > North America
• Endangered species
• Fishes
• Artenschutz
• Fische
• North America
• Nordamerika

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 252-256.

Contents

Introduction / Dr. Sylvia Earle -- The vanishing fishes -- Atlantic and Gulf Coast freshwater fishes. Copper redhorse (Moxostoma hubbsi) ; Maryland Darter (Etheostoma sellare) ; Roanoke fishes. Orangefin madtom (Noturus gilberti) ; Roanoke Logperch (Percina rex) ; Lake Waccamaw fishes. Waccamaw Killifish (Fundulus waccamensis) ; Waccamaw Silverside (Menidia extensa) ; Waccamaw Darter (Etheostoma perlongum) ; Okaloosa Darter (Etheostoma okaloosae) -- Great lakes fishes. Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) ; Shortnose Cisco (Coregonus reighardi) ; Shortjaw Cisco (Coregonus zenithicus) -- Pacific Coast freshwater fishes. Borax Lake Chub (Gila boraxobius) ; Warner Sucker (Catostomus warnerensis) ; Modoc Sucker (Catostomus microps) ; Unarmored threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus williamsoni) -- Pyramid lake fishes. Lahontan cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki henshawi) ; Cui-ui (Chasmistes cujus) ; Desert spring and pool fishes. Desert Dace (Eremichthys acros) ; Ash Meadows fishes. Devils Hole Pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) ; Ash Meadows Speckled Dace (Rhinichthys osculus nevadensis ; Ash Meadows Amargosa Pupfish (Cyprinodon nevadensis mionectes) ; Pahrump Killfish (Empetrichthys latos latos) -- Colorado River system fishes. Humpback Chub (Gila cypha) ; Bonytail Chub (Gila elegans) ; Colorado Squawfish (Ptychocheilus lucius) ; Razorback Sucker (Xyrauchen texanus) ; Woundfin (Plagopterus argentissimus) ; Moapa Dace (Moapa coriacea) -- Western Trouts. Apache Trout (Salmo apache) ; Greenback Cutthroat Trout (Salmo clarki stomias) ; Gila Trout (Salmo gilae) -- Texas Spring Fishes. Comanche Springs Pupfish (Cyprinodon elegans) ; Clear Creek Gambusia (Gambusia heterochir) ; San Marcos River fishes. San Marcos Gambusia (Gambusia georgei) ; Fountain Darter (Etheostoma fonticola) -- Texas Blindcats and Cavefishes. Widemouth blindcat (Satan eurystomus) ; Toothless Blindcat (Trogloglanis pattersoni) ; Ozark Cavefish (Amblyopsis rosae) ; Northern Cavefish (Amblyopsis spelaea) ; Alabama Cavefish (Speoplatyrhinus poulsoni) -- Cuatro Ciénegas Fishes. Sardinilla Cuatro Ciénegas (Lucania interioris) ; Cuatro Ciénegas Platyfish (Xiphophorus gordoni) ; Cuatro Ciénegas Shiner (Notropis xanthicara) -- Interior Highlands Fishes. Niangua Darter (Etheostoma nianguae) ; Peppered Shiner (Notropis perpallidus) ; Leopard Darter (Percina pantherina) -- Tennessee and Cumberland Fishes. Slackwater Darter (Etheostoma boschungi) ; Snail Darter (Percina tanasi) ; Blackside Dace. Phoxinnus cumberlandensis -- Southeastern Spring Fishes. Barrens Topminnow (Fundulus julisia) ; Spring Pygmy Sunfish (Elassoma species) ; Watercress Darter (Etheostoma nuchale) -- Marine and Estuarine Fishes. Shortnose Sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) ; Acadian Whitefish (Coregonnus canadensis) ; Totoaba (Cynoscion macdonaldi -- Extinction and extinct fishes. Harelip Sucker (Lagochila lacera) ; Tecopa Pupfish (Cyprindodon nevadensis calidae) ; Whiteline Topminnow (Fundulus albolineatus) ; Blue Pike (Stizostedion vitreum glaucum) -- Biogeography of endangered and threatened fishes -- Acid rain -- Outlook -- Appendices. List of endangered, threatened and extinct fishes of North America ; Map of endangered and threatened fishes of North America ; Parts of a fish ; Glossary ; References.

ISBN

• 091327643X
• 9780913276433

LCCN

82062896

OCLC

• ocm10014152
• 10014152
• SCSB-90079

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library