Adam E. Cohen

The Fishes of Texas Database and Ecological Niche Modeling for Better Understanding the Conservation Status of the State's Freshwater Fishes

The Fishes of Texas database compiled by the Texas Natural History Collection at the University of Texas at Austin consists of 65,876 freshwater records vouchered by specimens curated at 34 U.S., Mexican, and European collections, many unavailable online or in computerized format. An estimated 95% of all fish specimens ever collected in Texas since 1854 are represented, as are all known Texas freshwater species. All but 28 of Texas' 254 counties are represented in the 20,664 total localities, all now manually georeferenced. Locality plots reveal significant spatial gaps, and temporal...