Mohave tui chub

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Mohave tui chub
Conservation status
Endangered (ESA)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Leuciscidae
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 , possibly from flooding from the Mojave River.^{[citation needed]}

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.

See also[]

• Lake Tuendae
• Zzyzx, California

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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