Mohave tui chub

Mohave tui chub
Conservation status
	; Endangered (ESA)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Genus:	Siphateles
Species:	S. bicolor
Subspecies:	S. b. mohavensis
Trinomial name
	Siphateles bicolor mohavensis; (Snyder, 1918)
Synonyms
	Gila bicolor mohavensis

The Mohave tui chub (Siphateles bicolor mohavensis) is a species of fish. It is an endangered chub originally found only in the Mojave River. Even though named after the Mojave River, the fish's name is normally spelled "Mohave". It was named by ichthyologist Robert Rush Miller.

The fish managed to end up in Mojave Chub Spring, possibly from flooding from the Mojave River.

In their original Mojave River habitat, the Mohave chub have hybridized with the coastal chub (Gila orcutti); because of this, the Mojave Chub Spring is now the main source for all genetically "pure" Mohave chubs. Other locations in California have been used as refuges for this pure variety by intentionally introducing the fish into the location.

References

"Siphateles bicolor mohavensis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 March 2006.

External links

Lewis Center Tui Chub Home has a large amount of information about the Mohave tui chub, including pictures.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Threatened and Endangered Species System entry
Mojave National Preserve Animals Short history of the Mohave Tui Chub since the 1930s.

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