Relicts of a beautiful sea : survival, extinction, and conservation in a desert world /
"[This book] explores the existence of rare, unexpected and sublime desert creatures such as the black toad and four pupfishes unique to the desert West. All are anomalies, amphibians and fish, dependent upon aquatic habitats, yet living in one of the driest places on Earth, where precipitation...
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Collecting the dead
- A cultivation of slowness : the Inyo Mountains slender salamander (batrachoseps campi)
- Surviving an onslaught : the Owens pupfish (cyprinodon radiosus)
- Some fish : the salt creek and cottonball marsh pupfishes (cyprinodon salinus salinus and cyprinodon salinus milleri)
- A fragile existence : the devils hole pupfish (cyprinodon diabolis)
- Swimming from the ruins : the ash meadows and warm springs amargosa pupfishes (cyprinodon nevadensis mionectes and cyprinodon nevadensis pectoralis)
- Exile and loneliness : the black toad (bufo exsul)
- The view from telescope peak
- Epilogue : hold steady.