Native Ranges provided starting in Version 2
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In 2022 we held additional meetings to expand our native ranges into an enlarged study area and revise them to reflect the large number of new records in the database from the addition of the Track 3 data and revisions to the Track 1 and 2 data (mostly taxonomic re-determinations and updated georeferences). The updated native ranges were introduced with our Version 3 of the website along with the Track 3 data. Efforts to more precisely georeference our oldest records, collected in the mid-1800’s, greatly improved the accuracy of our native ranges.
Methods were generally the same as our 2017 effort, but we used QGIS software rather than ArcGIS (ESRI). All freshwater species in our study area were assessed in 12 meetings held on June 30 through July 26 by combinations of the between 2 and 8 (mode=6) people experienced in fishes of our region including,: Adam Cohen (12), Doug Martin (10), Roy Kleinsasser (9), Gary Garrett (8), Chris Taylor (8), Megan Bean (4), Kevin Conway (3), Bob Edwards (3), Melissa Casarez (3), Dean Hendrickson (1), and Chris Hoagstrom (consulted for single species). During these meetings we re-determined or determined native ranges, flagged records for examination, as suspect, as captive and/or for re-georeferencing (and other less common data errors). For native ranges of marine species, we relied heavily on the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s website, Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean Online Information System, which provides native ranges for most Gulf of Mexico species in our study area.
Some of the resources we reviewed:
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Douglas, N. H. 1974. Freshwater Fishes of Louisiana. Claitor’s Publishing Division.
Guerra, L. V. 1952. Ichthyological Survey of the Rio Salado, Mexico. Masters Thesis, University of Texas, Austin.
Hoagstrom, C. W., C. Hayer, and C. R. Berry. 2009. Criteria for determining native distributions of biota: The case of the Northern Plains Killifish in the Cheyenne River Drainage, North America. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 19(1):88–95. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.1000.
Hubbs, C. 1940. Fishes from the Big Bend region of Texas. Transactions of the Texas Academy of Science 23:3-12.
Hubbs, C. 1954. Corrected Distributional Records for Texas Fresh-Water Fishes. Texas Journal of Science 7:277-291.
Hubbs, C. 1957. Distributional patterns of Texas fresh-water fishes. Southwestern Naturalist 2:89-104.
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Hubbs, C., R.J. Edwards, and G.P. Garrett. 2008. An annotated checklist Annotated Checklist of the freshwater fishes Freshwater Fishes of Texas, with keys to identification of species. Second Edition. Texas Journal of Science Supplement (July):2–87. https://doi.org/10.15781/T22Z13563.
Hubbs, C., R. A. Kuehne and J. C. Ball. 1953. The fishes Fishes of the upper Upper Guadalupe River, Texas. Texas Journal of Science 5:216-244.
Jurgens, K.C. 1954. Records of Four Cyprinid Fishes of the Genera Notropis and Semotilus from Central Texas. Copeia 1954:155–156.
Knapp, F. T. 1953. Fishes found Found in the freshwaters Freshwaters of Texas. Ragland Studio and Litho Printing Co., Georgia.
Lamb, L.D. 1940. A Preliminary Fisheries Survey of the San Jacinto River Watershed. Transactions of the Texas Academy of Science. 24:42-48.
Lee, D. S., C. R. Gilbert, C. H. Hocutt, R. E. Jenkins, D. E. McAllister, and J. R. Stauffer Jr. 1980. Atlas of North American Freshwater Fishes. Publication of the North Carolina Biological Survey 12.
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Miller, R. R., W. L. Minckley, and S. M. Norris. 2005. Freshwater Fishes of Mexico. 1st ed. Chicago, Illinois: University Of Chicago Press.
Page, L. M. 1983. Handbook of Darters. Neptune City, New Jersey: TFH Publications.
Page, L. M., and B. M. Burr. 2011. Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes, Second Edition. 2 edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Sublette, J. E., M. D. Hatch, and M. F. Sublette. 1990. The Fishes of New Mexico. 1st ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Tilton, J. E. 1961. Ichthyological Survey of the Colorado River of Texas. Masters Thesis, University of Texas at Austin. http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/17774
Treviño-Robinson, D. 1959. The ichthyofauna of the Rio Grande, Texas and Mexico. Copeia 1959:253-256.
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