Decline of the Razorback Sucker in Lake Mohave, Colorado River, Arizona and Nevada

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1251-1256

  Marsh, Paul C ^a   Pacey, Carol A ^a   Kesner, Brian R ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE BREEDING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE;

UNITED STATES;

CATOSTOMIDAE; PISCES; XYRAUCHEN TEXANUS;

EID: 0242569356     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T02-115     Document Type: Article

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