Native Fishes of Arid Lands: A Dwindling Resource of the Desert Southwest

摘要

Native freshwater fishes have received little attention from resource managers,or for that matter the public, simply because they tend to be unfamiliar. Most people do not recognize the differences between different species of fishes, or even that different species of certain groups exist. Recognizing the problems of unfamiliarity and difficulties of identification, Rinne began to accumulate photographs of native fishes in the 1970s. The present report includes photographs of 46 species of fishes, some of the places in which they live, and of some past and present conditions of regional aquatic habitats.