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Dean
Date:Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:51:34 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Information requested- Mohave tui chub
From:"Sujan M. Henkanaththegedara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dear DFC member,
I am a grad student (DFC member) at North Dakota State University, who is
studying Mohave tui chub in CA. I have some important issues to clarify
about Mohave chubs. You may have the information to sort these out. If you
have any memories from your past experiance with Mohave tui chubs
(Siphateles bicolor mohavensis) please send it to me ASAP. Any information
will be worth for my investigation.
The popular idea is that all existing Mohave chubs are descending from the
population at MC spring, Zzyzx, CA. But there are no any CLEAR evidence/
documentation for this idea. This is a small spring at the edge of Soda
dry Lake. There is another big man-made Lake, Lake Tuendae, with a healthy
population of chubs close to MC Spring. All the translocations were made
from Lake Tuendae (Hoover and St. Amant, 1981; St. Amant and Sasaki,
1971).
I have done an extensive literature survey and got the idea that MC spring
is NOT the presumptive stock for Mohave chubs. It seems that there was a
another spring with Mohave chubs in the location where the Lake Tuendae is
now locating. I believe Lake Tuendae population is the presumptive stock.
I am further reading historic records and trying to contact the people who
had involved with Mohave chub work.
Please be kind enough to share your knowledge regarding any historic
information of Mohave chubs in Lake Tuendae and MC Spring (the information
prior to 1950 is the most important) and guide me in the right
direction. If you know more people that you think that I might get more
details regarding this issue, please let me know the contact details.
Have a wonderful summer.
Sujan M. Henkanaththegedara
Ph.D. Grad Student
Department of Biological Sciences,
Stevens Hall,
North Dakota State University,
Fargo, ND 58105,
United States.
E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
office : (701)-231-6561
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Dean A. Hendrickson, Ph.D.
Curator of Ichthyology, University of Texas, Texas Natural Science Center, Texas Natural History Collections, PRC 176 / R4000, 10100 Burnet Road, Austin, TX 78758-4445 U.S.A. Phone 512 471-9774; FAX 512 471-9775; http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/tnhc
Section of Integrative Biology, 1 University Station #C0930, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 USA. Phone 512 471-9774; http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/IB
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