by Melissa Casarez and Adam Cohen (Ichthyology Collection)
Illustration: Joseph Tomelleri
The Slenderhead Darter occurs throughout the Mississippi River basin, and only exists in Texas in tributaries of the Red River. It was first documented in TX in 1994 by UT biologists Laurie Dries and David Hillis in Sanders Creek, a...
Today the only member of the family Salmonidae (trout, salmon and their relatives) that occurs in Texas is the non-native Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss. That species is widely stocked around the state and there is one permanent population in McKittrick Creek, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, where it was introduced in the early 1900s. However...
By: Adam Zambie (undergraduate student; College of Natural Sciences; Environmental Science Major and Marine Science Certificate)
Naked Goby (Gobiosoma bosc), source: FoTX Project Website, credit: Joseph R. Tomelleri
Texas has a long history of non-native fish introductions into its rivers, streams, and lakes. Many are improbable st...