Specimen ID | 29434 |
Group | Fishes |
Genus | Atractosteus |
Species | spatula |
Common Name | Alligator Gar |
State | CA |
County | Contra Costa |
Locality | Clifton Court Forebay near Byron (an 880 hectare storage reservoir located approx. 130 km upstream from the Golden Gate Bridge at the head of the California Aqueduct)[~10 mi NW of Tracy, CA] |
Mapping Accuracy | Accurate |
HUC8 Name | San Joaquin Delta |
HUC8 Number | 18040003 |
HUC10 Name | Old River |
HUC10 Number | 1804000306 |
HUC12 Name | Califton Court Forebay |
HUC12 Number | 180400030604 |
Map | |
Collection Day | 17 |
Collection Month | 9 |
Collection Year | 1991 |
Year Accuracy | Actual |
Potential Pathway | released aquarium |
Status | failed |
Reference 1 |
Ref. Number: | 514 |
Author: | Raquel, P.F. |
Date: | 1992 |
Title: | Record of the alligator gar (Lepisosteus spatula) from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. |
Journal: | California Fish and Game |
Volume: | 78 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 169-171 |
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Comments | Also collected striped bass, white catfish, channel catfish, white sturgeon, cyprinids and centrarchids. |
Record Type | Literature |
Earliest Record | nation |
Disposal | "CA F&G Stockton, CA" |
Verifier | P.B. Moyle, UC Davis |
Freshwater/Marine | Freshwater |
Number Collected | 1 |
Size | 145.5cm TL; 59 cm girth;18.6kg |