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FoTX-lit_SourceID_14701

Not suspect, not examined
Pecos Pupfish Cyprinodon pecosensis
TX Threatened SGCN Federal: Under Review NS G2 NS S1

Photos

No photos available.

Map

No location data available.

Taxonomy

GenusCyprinodon
Speciespecosensis

Collection Event

Collected Date1978 to

Geography

DrainagePecos River
StateTX
Locality1978: saline floodplains & springs, lakes, gypsum sinkholes, etc from Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge & Bottomless Lakes State Park near Roswell, NM, downstream for ~650 river km to the mouth of Independence Creek, TX; currently only in part of Salt Creek, a saline tributary of the Pecos River south of the NM border

Rights & Source

SourceAnthony A. Echelle

Other

DesertStatus and Conservation
Http//www.nsrl.ttu.edu/publications/specpubs/sps/SP46.pdf

Record Source

Source Fishes of Texas Literature (type: miscellaneous)
Institution Dean Hendrickson Lab (type: researcher)
Curator Unknown
Record Added June 24, 2020
Record Last Modified May 9, 2022
Data Processing Track Track 3
From Data Set Received 5/2017 to 11/2017

Identification

Suspect Notes None
Count No data

Current Determination

Actinopterygii Cyprinodontiformes Cyprinodontidae Cyprinodon Cyprinodon pecosensis
Determiner Unknown
Determination Date Unknown
Determination Type Unspecified
Identification Comments None
Identification Confidence Unknown

Collecting Event

Collected Jan. 1, 1978 – Dec. 31, 1978
Collector(s)
No collector information is available for this record.
Collecting Event ID 303789
Field Notes
There are no field notes available.

Locality

Jurisdiction Unknown
Name Unnamed tributary of Rio Chico approximately 6 km north of Nuri on road to Yecora 28 10 N 109 18 W elevation 380 meters Rio Yaqui drainage
Hydrography Not available
Captive no
Locality Photos
No locality photos available.
Ecoregion Unknown
HUC
Georeferencing Remarks
Georeferencing Annotation
Has not been Georeferenced because This record, being part of the track 3 import, is not formally georeferenced by FoTX staff at this time. However, to allow mapping and visualization of this record, locality information has been provisionally accepted if provided by the donor or if location text could be matched to previously georeferenced records by FoTX team or donor data. For many records spatial error is either accepted from the donor (when provided) or derived based on coordinate precision.

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