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  • These include the bonytail chub, humpback chub, Sonora chub, Chihuahua chub, beautiful shiner, Pecos bluntnose shiner, razorback sucker, Colorado squawfish, Pyramid Lake cui-ui and Lahontan cutthroat trout.

    North American Deserts ecoregion (CEC) 2008

  • The species, along with other native Colorado River fishes including the bonytail (Gila elegans), squawfish (Ptychocheilus lucius), and perhaps the flannelmouth sucker (Catostomus latipinnis), may not survive to the end of this century.

    Colorado Plateau shrublands 2007

  • In the Colorado River basin, three full species of the minnow genus Gila—the roundtail, bonytail, and humpback chubs—can be identified only by a morphological distinction, their distinctively different body shapes.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • In the Colorado River basin, three full species of the minnow genus Gila—the roundtail, bonytail, and humpback chubs—can be identified only by a morphological distinction, their distinctively different body shapes.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Alvord chub, Gila alvordensis tui chub, Gila bicolor humpback chub, Gila cypha bonytail, Gila elegans roundtail chub, Gila robusta northern pikeminnow, Ptychocheilus oregonensis longnose dace, Rhinichthys cataractae speckled dace, Rhinichthys osculus redside shiner, Richardsonius balteatus

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Alvord chub, Gila alvordensis tui chub, Gila bicolor humpback chub, Gila cypha bonytail, Gila elegans roundtail chub, Gila robusta northern pikeminnow, Ptychocheilus oregonensis longnose dace, Rhinichthys cataractae speckled dace, Rhinichthys osculus redside shiner, Richardsonius balteatus

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Alvord chub, Gila alvordensis tui chub, Gila bicolor humpback chub, Gila cypha bonytail, Gila elegans roundtail chub, Gila robusta northern pikeminnow, Ptychocheilus oregonensis longnose dace, Rhinichthys cataractae speckled dace, Rhinichthys osculus redside shiner, Richardsonius balteatus

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Alvord chub, Gila alvordensis tui chub, Gila bicolor humpback chub, Gila cypha bonytail, Gila elegans roundtail chub, Gila robusta northern pikeminnow, Ptychocheilus oregonensis longnose dace, Rhinichthys cataractae speckled dace, Rhinichthys osculus redside shiner, Richardsonius balteatus

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • In the Colorado River basin, three full species of the minnow genus Gila—the roundtail, bonytail, and humpback chubs—can be identified only by a morphological distinction, their distinctively different body shapes.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • In the Colorado River basin, three full species of the minnow genus Gila—the roundtail, bonytail, and humpback chubs—can be identified only by a morphological distinction, their distinctively different body shapes.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

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