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In the News

• Native Fish in a Bone-Dry River: The Mohave Tui Chub's Slow Comeback (PBS, 2012)
• A Scout's Mission to Save the Mojave Tui Chub, 2009

  Local fish species on the rebound, DD 2008

• An Endangered Fish Returns Home (Almost), 2008

  Native fish returns to Victor Valley, DP 2007

• Sliding toward extinction, DP 2007

• Habitat ebbs with changing river, DP 2006

• Happy fish come from heavy rains, DP 2005

• Mohave tui chub - Arroyo chub Hybridization Experiment, 2nd Annual Report (Hughson, 2009)
• The the web site and collective works of Sujan M. Hankanaththegedara

• Science project Report on best cattail removal technique to benefit chub habitat.

• Status and Distribution of Freshwater Fishes of Southern California (Swift et al, 1993)
• Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles of the Lower Mojave River System (Brown, 1978)
• Temporal Desert Riparian Systems the Mojave River In CA (Courtois 1984)
• The Great Basin, With Emphasis on Glacial and Post Glacial Times, (Blackwelder, Miller, Antevs, 1948)
• Mojave River Judgment (Kaiser 1996)
• A List of Freshwater, Anadromous, and Euryhaline Fishes of California (Moyle, Davis, 2000)
• Freshwater fishes of Mojave River, California: past and present (Henkanaththegedara et al 2008)
• The Mohave Desert Region, Water Supply Papers ( Thompson, D, 1929)
• The California Deserts: An Ecological Rediscovery, (Pavlik, 2008) (Chapter 1: Mojave Desert)
• Review of Late Pleistocene Avifauna from Lake Manix, Central Mojave Desert, California, (Jefferson, 1985)

• Fish Remains from Oro Grande Site (Follett, 1983)

• Genetics and management of endangered Mohave tui chub, Siphateles bicolor mohavensis (Chen et al, 2007)

• Asian Tapeworm Mosquitofish and Food Ration on MTC, (Archdeacon 2007)
• http://www.ca.blm.gov/pdfs/cdd_pdfs/tuichub1.PDF
• A Physiological Response of a Native and Introduced Desert Fish To Environmental Stressors (Castleberry, Cech, 1986)
• Habitat Evaluation (1994-1995 ), Archbold
• Responses of a native (Mohave Tui Chub) and an introduced desert fish (arroyo chub) to environmental stressers (1986, castleberry) PDF
• Genetic Similarities of Mohave tui chub to other tui chub (1997)
• Abiotic Preferences of the Mohave tui chub (1986)
• Moving a fish (Courtois, 1980)
• Taxonomy of Mohave tui chub
• Life on the Edge: Mohave tui chub (excerpt), 1994
• Population Size and Age and Growth of Mohave tui chubs at Fort Soda, California (Taylor, 1982)
• Age and growth of MTC from Ft Soda (Desert Fish Council, Taylor and McGriff 1985)
• DRECP's 2012 account of the MTC's status

• Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of California, (McGinnis, Alcorn, 2006)
• Fishes of the Great Basin, A Natural History (Sigler,1987) [Tui chub are highlighted]
• Tui Chub Taphonomy and the Importance of Marsh Resources in the Great Basin of North America (Butler, 1996)
• Gila bicolor (Girard 1856)
  • http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.aspx?speciesID=532
  • New subspecies PDF
• Lahontan Tui Chub (Gila bicolor obesa (Girard) ) of Walker Lake, Nevada, Cooper 1978
  • Life History and Reproduction Cycle
• Owen tui chub, Geologica, 2003

• State and Federally Listed Endangered and Threatened Animals of California, August 2007
• Mohave tui chub Five Year Status Report (CDFG 1990)
• USFWS 1984, MTC Recovery Plan (rough copy with notes that may not have any bearing on the report)
  • http://www.nps.gov/moja/devaplan/devaappc.html
  • http://ecos.fws.gov/species_profile/SpeciesProfile?spcode=E00Q
• Mojave Desert Preserve, Revised Draft EIS and General Management Plan, Appendix D: Species of Special Consideration
  • http://www.nps.gov/moja/planning/mojarevisedplan/mojavol1k1.pdf
• CDFG http://www.dfg.ca.gov/hcpb/cgibin/read_one.asp?specy=fish&idNum=100
• A List of Freshwater, Anadromous, and Euryhaline Fishes of California
  • http://www.dfg.ca.gov/hcpb/species/p_a_rglr/fishofcalif.pdf
• BLM
  • http://www.ca.blm.gov/pdfs/cdd_pdfs/Ch6_9-22-99.pdf

• Examination of Potential Relocation Sites for MTC (Feldmeth, Stoltz, 1985)
• California Fish Species, Accounts ...
  • http://www.dfg.ca.gov/hcpb/species/t_e_spp/t_e07fishes.pdf
• Species and Habitats of Special Consideration on the Mojave Desert Preserve...
• Collection Accounts
  
  • List of introduction of Mohave tui chub to waterbodies other then the Mojave River
    • http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/CollectionInfo.aspx?SpeciesID=533
• Mass Hybridization Between Two Genera of Cyprind Fishes In The Mohave Desert, California
  • (Hobbs and Miller, 1943)

• Zzyzx Mineral Springs—Cultural Treasure and Endangered Species Aquarium
• [?] Assessment of water conditions at Soda Springs (a.k.a. Lake Tuendae and/or MC Spring)
• Camp Cady [?]
• Lake Tuendae
  • Bimonthly water quality data Lake Tuendae and MC Spring (Fulton, 1989)
  • Chub population at Zzyzx (1985) PDF
  • Habitat Evaluation for MTC, Archbold 1996
  • EA for Dredging of Lake Tuendae, Habitat for the Endangered Mohave tui chub (Siphateles bicolor mohavensis)
• China Lake Rufuge
  • http://www.enviro-navair.navy.mil/currents/summer2003/Sum03_Tui_Chub.pdf
  • Natural Resources of Lark Seep System Emphasizing MTC, pp 356-358 (Feldmeth et al 1985)
  • China Lake Stewardship (PDF)
  • Lark Seep System (PDF)
  • Fish Survey of Lark Seep (1980, Karner)
  • History of Mohave tui chub in China Lakes (1973, Vicker) PDF
  • NAWS Mohave Tu Chub Annual Report for 2002 
• http://www.nps.gov/moja/naturescience/chubresearch.htm
• Data and Results from Relocation Efforts in Nevada and California
  
  • Hoover (1983 CDFG report)
  • Miller (1968, CDFG report)
  • Havelka (1982, population report)
  • Havelka (1985, CDFC report)
  • St. Amant (1983a) PDF
  • St. Amant (1983b) PDF

• http://www.desertfishes.org/

• http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/CollectionInfo.aspx?SpeciesID=540&status=0&fmb=1&pathway=0&HUCNumber=18090208
• Species Account

Fish Base: A Global Information System on Fishes

• http://www.fishbase.org/search.php

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• Conventional Wisdom...

• On Time, On Target: 110 Success Stories for Endangered Species Day 2012... MTC
  
• Inland fishes of California, (Moyle, 1976) [Mohave tui chub are highlighted]
• 1984 MTC Recovery Plan
• Report on a Workshop to Revisit the Mohave tui chub Recovery Plan, September 3-4, 2003 at Zzyzx, California, Mojave National Preserve
• Introduced parasites of freshwater fish in So California (Kuperman et al 2002)
• Requests for images of Mohave tui chub
  http://www.enature.com/about/missing_images.asp#Anchor-missing-fishes
• TNHC - North America Freshwater Fishes Index Images, Maps and Information
  • http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/tnhc/fish/index.html
• American Fisheries Society Guidelines for Introductions of Threatened and Endangered Fishes
• Species in a Bucket, For a few frightening moments, there was only myself standing between life and extinction. By Edwin Philip Pister
  • http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/editors_pick/1993_01_pick.html
• Our Disappearing Desert Fishes, by David L. Soltz
  • http://www.nativefish.org/Articles/desert.htm
• Providing a Safe Harbor for Endangered Species On Private Land
  • http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?ContentID=399