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Southwest Fisheries Species Fact Sheets
The National Fish Hatcheries in the Southwest Region serve as both short-term refuges for species in crisis and as long-term propagation and management facilities for these species to support the ultimate recovery of the organisms in the wild. These production programs are categorized as Recovery, and deal with both Threatened and Endangered species. Some of the captive populations are the only known breeding individuals of their species.
Other programs operating within the Regional system of hatcheries are committed to production of species that have not yet become so imperiled that they are listed under the Endangered Species Act. Candidate species require production support to aid in recovery of the species to self-sustaining population levels. Restoration species are those that have threats that are not as immediate or great but the populations still require management assistance to sustain themselves.
In addition to recovery and restoration programs some species are held for research as short term captives and sportfish species are held in production to support recreational stocking programs.
Southwest Fisheries Species
Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Held for |
Station |
Fish |
Alligator gar |
Atractosteus spatula |
Restoration |
Tishomingo |
Apache Trout |
Oncorhynchus gilae apache |
Threatened |
Alchesay-Willams Creek |
Arkansas River shiner |
Notropis girardi |
Threatened |
Tishomingo |
Big Bend gambusia |
Gambusia Giagei |
Endangered |
Southwestern ARRC |
Bonytail chub |
Gila elegans |
Endangered |
Southwestern ARRC, Willow Beach |
Brook trout |
Onchorynchus fontinalis |
Sportfish |
Alchesay-Willams Creek |
Brown trout |
Salmo trutta |
Sportfish |
Alchesay-Willams Creek |
Channel catfish |
Ictalurus punctatus |
Sportfish |
Inks Dam, Southwestern ARRC, Tishomingo, Uvalde |
Channel darter |
Percina copelandi
|
Research |
Tishomingo |
Chihuahua chub |
Gila nigrescens |
Threatened |
Southwestern ARRC |
Clear Creek gambusia |
Gambusia heterochir |
Endangered |
Inks Dam |
Colorado pikeminnow |
Ptychocheilus lucius |
Endangered |
Southwestern ARRC |
Comanche Springs pupfish |
Cyprinodon elegans |
Endangered |
Southwestern ARRC, Uvalde |
Desert pupfish |
Cyprinodon macularis |
Endangered |
Southwestern ARRC |
Devils River minnow |
Dionda diaboli |
Threatened |
San Marcos ARC |
Fountain Darter |
Etheostoma fonticola |
Endangered |
Inks Dam*, San Marcos ARC, Uvalde |
Gila chub |
Gila intermedia |
Endangered |
Southwestern ARRC |
Gila topminnow |
Poeciliopsis o. occidentalis |
Endangered |
Southwestern ARRC |
Gila trout |
Oncorhynchus gilae |
Threatened |
Mora, NMFWCO |
Guzman beautiful shiner |
Cyprinella formosa |
Threatened |
Southwestern ARRC |
Headwater chub |
Gila nigra |
Candidate |
Southwestern ARRC |
Humpback chub |
Gila cypha |
Endangered |
Southwestern ARRC |
Leon Springs pupfish |
Cyprinodon bovinus |
Endangered |
Southwestern ARRC |
Leopard darter |
Percina pantherina |
Threatened |
Tishomingo* |
Loach minnow |
Tiaroga cobitis |
Endangered |
Alchesay-Willams Creek*, Southwestern ARRC |
Paddlefish |
Polyodon spathula |
Restoration |
Inks Dam, Tishomingo |
Pahranagat roundtail chub |
Gila robusta jordani |
Endangered |
Southwestern ARRC |
Pecos bluntnose shiner |
Notropis simus pecosensis |
Threatened |
Southwestern ARRC |
Pecos gambusia |
Gambusia nobilis |
Endangered |
SW Native ARC |
Pecos pupfish |
Cyprinodon pecosensis
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Threatened |
Southwestern ARRC |
Peppered chub |
Machrybopsis tetranema
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Research |
Tishomingo |
Proserpine Shiner |
Cyprinella proserpina
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Endangered |
Southwestern ARRC |
Rainbow trout |
Oncorhynchus mykiss |
Sportfish |
Alchesay-Willams Creek, Willow Beach |
Razorback sucker |
Xyrauchen texanus |
Endangered |
Southwestern ARRC, Uvalde, Willow Beach |
Rio Grande silvery minnow |
Hybognathus amarus |
Endangered |
Southwestern ARRC |
Spikedace |
Meda fulgida |
Endangered |
Southwestern ARRC |
Virgin River chub |
Gila robusta seminuda |
Endangered |
Southwestern ARRC |
Woundfin minnow |
Plagopterus argentissimus |
Endangered |
Southwestern ARRC |
Amphibians |
Barton Springs salamander |
Eurycea sosorum |
Endangered |
San Marcos ARC |
Relict leopard frog |
Rana onca |
Endangered |
Willow Beach |
San Marcos salamander |
Eurycea nana |
Threatened |
San Marcos ARC, Uvalde |
Texas blind salamander |
Eurycea rathbuni |
Endangered |
San Marcos ARC |
Reptiles |
Alligator snapping turtle |
Macrochelys temminckii |
Restoration |
Tishomingo |
Plants |
American willow |
Justicia americana |
Restoration |
San Marcos ARC |
Arrowhead |
Sagittaria platyphylla |
Restoration |
San Marcos ARC |
Texas wild-rice |
Zizania texana |
Endangered |
San Marcos ARC, Uvalde |
Water pennywort |
Hydrocotyle umbellate |
Restoration |
San Marcos ARC |
Water primrose |
Ludwigia repens |
Restoration |
San Marcos ARC |
Yellow stargrass |
Heteranthera dubia |
Restoration |
San Marcos ARC |
Mollusks |
Balcones elimia |
Elimia comalensis |
Candidate |
San Marcos ARC |
Golden Orb |
Quadrula aurea |
Candidate |
San Marcos ARC |
Phantom Lake cave snail |
Pyrgulopsis texana |
Candidate |
San Marcos ARC |
Phantom Spring tryonia |
Tryonia cheatumi |
Candidate |
San Marcos ARC |
Smooth pimpleback |
Quadrula houstonensis
|
Candidate |
San Marcos ARC |
Texas fatmucket mussell |
Lampsilis bracteata |
Threatened |
San Marcos ARC |
Texas fawnsfoot |
Truncilla macrodon |
Candidate |
San Marcos ARC |
Texas pimpleback |
Quadrula petrina |
Candidate |
San Marcos ARC |
Crustaceans |
Peck's Cave amphipod |
Stygobromus pecki |
Endangered |
San Marcos ARC |
Insects |
Comal Springs dryopid beetle |
Stygoparnus comalensis |
Endangered |
San Marcos ARC |
Comal springs riffle beetle |
Heterelmis comalensis |
Endangered |
San Marcos ARC |
* station serves as emergency refugia, species is currently not on station |
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