Status of introduced fishes in certain spring systems in southern Nevada

Authors

Walter R. Courtenay Jr., Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
James E. Deacon, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Abstract

We record eight species of exotic fishes as established, reproducing populations in certain springs in Clark, Lincoln, and Nye counties, Nevada. These include an unidentified species of Hypostomus, Cyprinus carpio, Poecilia mexicana, Poecilia reticulata, a Xiphophorus hybrid, and Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum. Tilapia mariae, established in a spring near the Overton Arm of Lake Mead, and Tilapia zilli, established in a golf course pond in Pahrump Valley, are recorded for the first time from Nevada waters. Though populations of transplanted Gambusia affinis persist, other populations of Poecilia latipinna are apparently no longer extant. Cichlasoma severum, Notemigonus crysoleucas, Poecilia latipinna, and Carassius auratus were apparently eradicated from Rogers Spring in 1963.

Recommended Citation

Courtenay, Walter R. Jr. and Deacon, James E. (1982) "Status of introduced fishes in certain spring systems in southern Nevada," Great Basin Naturalist: Vol. 42: No. 3, Article 6.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbn/vol42/iss3/6