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CAS-SU(ICH) 1028 Moxostoma austrinum   [Catalog of Fishes]       ID by/date  Catostomidae
Counts (Alc/Skel/CS) 1/0/0 Prep Type - Preservative alc-75% EtOH Other/Previous Number Size      
Collector; Vessel Woolman, A. J.; Cox, U. O.  Field Number AJW 1891B Date Collected  
Continent/Ocean North America Country Mexico State Guanajuato State County
Water Body Rio De Lerma Drainage Rio Grande de Santiago Island Group Island
Depth Width ca. 75 ft. Salinity F Gear
Locality Salamanca (ca. 6,000 ft. elev.); collected when stream swollen, swift & muddy.
Latitude-Longitude 20.565622°, -101.200257°; uncertainty: 3612 m (Source: FishNet Collaborative Georeferencing Project) Bottom Type bed of fine gravel with a few large angular stones
Georef. RemarksRio Lerma traverses the city of Salamanca, Guanajuato; altitude is approximately 5608 feet (1710 m). DS Jordan and JO Snyder reference other fishes (e.g., A. dugesi) captured by Prof. Woolman in the Rio Lerma at Salamanca, Gto., in "Notes on a Collection
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