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Figure 1. Distribution of native or potentially native trouts in northwestern Mexico. All drainages from which trout collections are known are
shaded gray. Hydrographic divides are indicated by brown lines; state boundaries by black lines. Circles, color-coded by drainage as indicated,
correspond to localities of all collections that have latitude/longitude coordinates listed in Table 1. Drainages are labeled at their mouths as
follows: SS – Santo Domingo & San Rafael, Y – Yaqui, M – Mayo, F – Fuerte, S – Sinaloa, C – Culiacán, SL – San Lorenzo, Pi – Piaxtla, Pr –
Presidio, B – Baluarte, A – Acaponeta, Co – Conchos, G – Guzmán (only Casas Grandes portion illustrated).
ities and discussed habitat and fish population histories
with us. Additionally, several sport fishermen who
have angled for native Mexican trouts shared their
observations, sometimes providing data for localities
previously (and sometimes still) unsampled by biologists,
including ourselves.
Voucher specimens from our collections have
been, or will be, deposited in at least the following
collections (Collection codes follow Leviton and
Gibbs (1985, 1988) except as otherwise noted): CIAD
(Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo
– Unidad Mazatlán), IB-UNAM-P, TNHC, UABC,
UAIC, UAZ, UMMZ and USON (Universidad de
Sonora, DICTUS – Departamento de Investigaciones
Científicas y Tecnológicas, Hermosillo, Sonora).
Taxonomy and common names used throughout
follow our conventions listed in Figure 2. Place names
ending in “chic” are common on maps throughout our
study area (e.g. Papigochic, Panalachic, Basaseachic),
but are a corruption of indigenous names (of the
Tarahumara language). We agree with an opinion
recently reiterated in the popular press in Chihuahua
(Anonymous, 2002) and express all place names in the
indigenous form, dropping the terminal “c.”