...Cienegas Basin in Coahuila, Mexico (Hubbs and Miller 1965), and is an international critically endangered species (IUCN 2000). The rainwater killifish, L. parva, is native of salt marshes, bays, and lagoons from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Tampico, Mexico (Lee et al. 1980). It is especially abundant in the southeastern portion of its range, particularly in the St. Johns River system in Florida, and the Rio Grande and Pecos Rivers in Texas and New Mexico (Hubbs and Miller 1965; Page and Burr 1991). Non-indigenous populations of L. parva have been established in marine and freshwater environments in New Jersey, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, and Oregon (Fuller et al. 1999). In California, the rainwater killif ish is found in Irving Lake and Arroyo Seco Creek near Vail Lake in southern California (McCoid and St. Amant 1980), sloughs and streams flowing into the San Francisco Bay, and Lake Merritt in Oakland (Moyle 1976). The bluefin killifish, L. goodei, is found in freshwater habitats in the southeastern United States. Its endemic range encompasses most of Florida, except in the panhandle where it is found only east of the Choctawhatchee River, and the Chipola River drainage in southeastern Alabama (Page and Burr 1991). It is also found sporadically along the Atlantic coast up to central North Carolina where it is possibly introduced (Loyacano 1975;...

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