Re: NANFA-L-- new North American fish list

Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- new North American fish list
From: Joshua L. Wiegert (JLW-in-dune.net)
Date: Sun Aug 08 2004 - 13:42:58 CDT

Chris --

Amazing work. I'm sure it took a long time to put that together! Its
sobering to see all the red ink marking threatened, endangered, and extinct
species. Just a touch of critique on it, though: Would you consider
adding in some #Anchors to the HTML code to make browsing it a little bit
easier ? Secondly, you may want to indicate that the
endangered/threatened/etc. status applies only to federal listings. A
number of those fishes are protected by state law, listed as protected in
virtually their entire range, but denied federal protection.

JW. 

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Scharpf" <ichthos-in-comcast.net>
To: "NANFA e-mail list" <nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 1:03 PM
Subject: NANFA-L-- new North American fish list

> Surprisingly, there is no comprehensive and taxonomically up-to-date list
of
> native North American freshwater fish species on the web. To remedy this
> situation, I've compiled the following list:
>
> http://www.nanfa.org/members/Scharpf/NANFA_Checklist.html
>
> You'll notice that in addition to species, the list contains subspecies
and
> undescribed forms. The list also includes whether the species is extinct,
or
> is protected by the U.S., Canadian, or Mexican governments.
>
> The list is provisional, subject to peer review, and to some extent
> subjective: it is based on my review of the literature and reflects a
> synthesis of major systematic, taxonomic, and distributional works. The
> list, of course, is subject to change, and change it will -- especially
when
> the American Fisheries Society list of all North American fish species
> (freshwater and marine) and other works (e.g., the Fishes of Mexico book)
> are published later this year. As new species are described and names are
> changed, the list will be updated to reflect the change (note the revision
> date-in-the beginning of the list).
>
> A few introductory comments:
>
> * With several exceptions, the fishes included on the list are obligatory
> freshwater fishes. The exceptions are marine or brackish water species
that
> are naturally capable of spawning in fresh water, and, in some cases,
> maintain exclusively freshwater populations. Examples include bay anchovy
> (Anchoa mitchilli), mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus), starry flounder
> (Platichthys stellatus), and various pipefishes, sleepers, gobies, and
> soles.
>
> * North America is herein defined not as the entire continent, but as the
> Nearctic zoogeographic realm. The Nearctic Realm includes the entire
> continental landmass, including Greenland, Alaska, Canada, the lower 48
> states, and Mexico south to the where the Mexican plateau breaks down into
> the lowlands of Central America. Specifically, this includes land north of
> 18N on the Atlantic slope, and 16N on the Pacific slope of Mexico; the
> imaginary line drawn between these two latitudinal points corresponds
> roughly to the southern range limit of chiefly northern fishes such as
> minnows and suckers, and the northern range limit of the chiefly southern
> catfish family Heptateridae. This is not a discrete boundary, but a broad
> transition zone where the continental plates of North and South America
> began pushing against each around three million years ago (or later).
Areas
> below this line, including extreme southern (tropical) Mexico, are in the
> Neotropical Realm. So, too, are the Greater Antilles. Even though Cuba is
> just 150 km off the coast of Florida, and Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of
> the United States, they're both giant peaks of a vast underwater mountain
> range that's part of South America. Fishes from Hawaii are also excluded
in
> that they hail from the Oceania Realm.
>
> * The list does not include exotic species, although it probably should,
and
> they will be added-in-a later date.
>
> A fully annotated version of the "NANFA" list is being prepared as a
> multi-installment article for American Currents.
>
> If you have any questions about the list, or any comments or corrections,
> either email me off list -- ichthos-in-comcast dot net -- or discuss them
> here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Scharpf
> NANFA HQ
>
>
> "Protecting species is the same intrinsic gesture as preserving the
original
> documents and constitutions of an entire civilization, or the love letters
> of grandparents."
>        -- Craig Childs, The Secret Knowledge of Water
>
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