NANFA-- Wisconsin Fundulus (was hellbenders plus!)

Christopher Scharpf (ichthos_at_comcast.net)
Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:08:34 -0400

> Fundulus diaphanous is special concern ( why?) in Wisconsin, but protected in
> Illinois.

According to Lyons, Cochran and Fago (2000), the species in "has become less
common in southern Wisconsin in recent years" and "has declined greatly in
abundance and possibly disappeared" from at least two lakes.

> The dispar was listed in 1978, and there it sits. Meanwhile more populations
> and range extensions ( probably not range extensions, but we are just finding
> them further away from the old sites as people know what they are and better
> how to find them) are found, and the habitat has improved, but they stay
> listed.

Lyons, Cochran and Fago (2000) credit an aquarist (Ray Katula) with
discovering a new population, and acknowledge that the species is more
widespread than Becker (1983) indicated, but also note that the Coon Creek
population may be gone, and that a resampling of the Sugar River tributary
in Rock Co. failed to yield specimens.

Chris Scharpf
Baltimore
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