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Literature Cited Proposed Listing and Proposed Literature Cited, West Texas Aquatic Invertebrates Proposed Listing and Critical Habitat 8/6/2012 Literature Cited Proposed Listing and Proposed Designation of Critical Habitat Phantom Cave snail, Phantom springsnail, diminutive amphipod, Diamond Y Spring snail , Gonzales springsnail, and Pecos amphipod Docket No. FWS-R2-ES-2012-0029, August 2012 Adams, J. 2010. Letter to J. Kevin Ward, Texas Water Development Board, from the Administrator Groundwater Management Area 4 transmitting adopted Desired Future Conditions for nine aquifers. Dated August 13, 2010. 17 pp. Allan, J.D. 1995. Stream ecology, structure and function of running waters. Chapman & Hall, London. Allan, N.L. 2000. Deterioration of Phantom Lake Spring, Jeff Davis County, Texas. Proceedings of the Desert Fishes Council 32:51. Allan, N.L. 2008. Trip report Phantom Lake Spring. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, September 14 – 15, 2009. Austin Ecological Services Field Office. 2 pp. Allan, N.L. 2009. Trip report Phantom Lake Spring, February 13, 2008. Austin Ecological Services Field Office. 4 pp. Allan, N.L. 2011. Trip report: west Texas springs aquatic invertebrate survey. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Austin Ecological Services Field Office. November 8-9, 2011. 3 pp. Angle, E.S. 2001. Hydrogeology of the Salt Basin. Pages 241–256, in R.E. Mace, W.F. Mullican, III, and E.S. Angle, eds. Aquifers of West Texas. Texas Water Development Board, Austin, Texas, Report 356. Appleton, C.C., A.T. Forbes, and N.T. Demetriades. 2009. The occurrence, bionomics and potential impacts of the invasive freshwatersnail Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1822) (Gastropoda: Thiaridae) in South Africa. Zoologische Mededelingen 83 (July 2009). Published online at http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a04. Ashworth, J.B. 2001. Bone Spring-Victorio Peak Aquifer of the Dell Valley region of Texas. Pages 135–152, in R.E. Mace, W.F. Mullican, III, and E.S. Angle, eds. Aquifers of West Texas. Texas Water Development Board, Austin, Texas, Report 356. Ashworth, J.B., D.B. Coker, and W. Tschirhart. 1997. Evaluation of diminished spring flows in the Toyah Creek Valley, Texas. Open File Report 97-03. Texas Water Development Board, Austin, Texas. 12 pp. Beach, J.A., J.B. Ashworth, S.T. Finch, Jr., A. Chastain-Howley, K. Calhoun, K.M. Urbanczyk, J.M. Sharp, and J. Olson. 2004. Groundwater availability model for the Igneous and parts of the West Texas Bolsons (Wild Horse Flat, Michigan Flat, Ryan Flat and Lobo Flat) aquifers. Prepared for: Texas Water Development Board. 208 pp. Benson, A. J.. 2012. Melanoides tuburculatus (red-rim melania). U.S. Geological Survey. Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL. Accessed online January 23, 2012. http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/factsheet.aspx?SpeciesID=1037. Revision Date: April 24, 2006. 3 pp. 1 Literature Cited, West Texas Aquatic Invertebrates Proposed Listing and Critical Habitat 8/6/2012 Boghici, R. 1997. Hydrogeological investigations at Diamond Y Springs and surrounding area, Pecos County, Texas. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, University of Texas at Austin. 120 pp. Boghici, R. and N.G. Van Broekhoven. 2001. Hydrogeology of the Rustler Aquifer, Trans-Pecos Texas. Pages 207–225, in R.E. Mace, W.F. Mullican, III, and E.S. Angle, eds. Aquifers of West Texas. Texas Water Development Board, Austin, Texas, Report 356. Bousfield, E.L. 1989. Revised morphological relationships within the amphipod genera pontoporeia and Gammaracanthus and the “Glacial Relict” significance of the postglacial distributions. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 46:1714– 1725. Bowles, D.E. 2012. Personal communication: email from D. Bowles, National Park Service, to Nathan Allan, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. January 23, 2012. 1 p. Bowles, D.E. and T.L. Arsuffi. 1993. Karst aquatic ecosystems of the Edwards Plateau region of central Texas, USA: a consideration of their importance, threats to their existence, and effort for their conservation. Aquatic Conservation of Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 3:317–329. Bradstreet, J. 2011. Habitat associations and abundance estimates of native and exotic freshwater snails in a west Texas spring. Unpublished master’s thesis. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. 103 pp. Brown, K.M. 1991. Mollusca: gastropoda. Pages 285–314, in J.H. Thorp and A.P. Covich, eds. Ecology and classification of North American freshwater invertebrates. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, California. Brown, K.M, B. Lang, and K.E. Perez. 2008. The conservation ecology of North American pleurocerid and hydrobiid gastropods. Journal of North American Benthological Society 27:484–495. Brune, G. 1981. Springs of Texas. Branch-Smith, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas. Brusca, R.C. and G.J. Brusca. 1990. Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts. Chowdhury, A.H., C. Ridgeway, and R.E. Mace. 2004. Origin of the waters in the San Solomon Spring system, Trans-Pecos Texas. Pages 315–344, in R.E. Mace, E.S. Angle, and W.F. Mullican, III, eds. Aquifers of the Edwards Plateau. Texas Water Development Board, Austin, Texas, Report 360. Cole, G.A. 1976. A new amphipod crustacean, Gammarus hyalelloides n. sp., from Texas. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 89:80–85. Cole, G.A. 1985. Analysis of the Gammarus-pecos complex (Crustacea: Amphipoda) in Texas and New Mexico, USA. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 20:93–103. Cole, G.A. and E.L. Bousfield. 1970. A new freshwater Gammarus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from western Texas. American Midland Naturalist 83:89–95. Covich, A.P. and J.H. Thorp. 1991. Crustacea: introduction and Peracarida. Pages 665–689, in J. H. Thorp and A. P. Covich, eds. Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, California. 2 Literature Cited, West Texas Aquatic Invertebrates Proposed Listing and Critical Habitat 8/6/2012 Culberson County Groundwater Conservation District. 2007. Culberson Groundwater Conservation District management plan, April 19, 2000 – April 18, 2010. Revised by the Board of Directors September 24, 2007. 10 pp. + appendices. Dundee, D. and H. Dundee. 1969. Notes concerning two Texas molluscs, Cochliopa texana Pilsbry and Lyrodes cheatumi Pilsbry (Mollusca: Hydrobiidae). Transactions of the American Microscipical Society 88(2):205–210. Echelle, A.A., A.F. Echelle, L. Kiner, G.P. Garrett, J. Karges, and W.L. Fisher. 2001. Monitoring effects of a renovation project on endangered fish and invertebrates in Diamond Y Draw. Final Report, Endangered Species Program, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Austin, Texas. Project No. E-1-13; Code WER38. 66 pp. Fullington, R.W. and R. Goodloe. 1991. Mollusca survey of Texas Nature Conservancy preserves: Diamond Y Springs and Independence Creek. Final Report, The Nature Conservancy of Texas, San Antonio, Texas. 7 pp. Fullington, R.W. 1993. Letter to Ruth Stanford, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Austin, Texas. September 29, 1993. 2 pp. Garrett, G.P. 2003. Innovative approaches to recover endangered species. Pages 151–160, in G.P. Garrett and N.L. Allan, eds. Aquatic fauna of the northern Chihuahuan Desert. Museum of Texas Tech University, Special Publications 46. Gervasio, V., D.J. Berg, B.K. Lang, N.L. Allan, and S.I. Guttman. 2004. Genetic diversity in the Gammarus pecos species complex: implications for conservation and regional biogeography in the Chihuahuan Desert. Limnology and Oceanography 49:520–531. Hargrave, C.W. 2010. Conservation status of Comanche Springs Pupfish (Cyprinidon elegans) and Pecos gambusia (Gambusia nobilis) in the ciénegas of Balmorhea State Park, Texas. Interim Performance Report, Cooperative Endangered Species Program, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Austin, Texas. Grant E-118-1. 11 pp. Henry, B. 1992. The macroinvertebrate community of Diamond-Y Cienega, a saline spring system in trans-Pecos, Texas. Report to The Texas Nature Conservancy, San Antonio, Texas. 14 pp. Hershler, R. 1994. A review of the North American freshwater snail genus Pyrgulopsis (Hydrobiidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Number 554. 115 pp. Hershler, R. 1998. A systematic review of the hydrobiid snails (Gastropoda: Rissooidea) of the Great Basin, Western United States. Part I. Genus Pyrgulopsis. The Veliger 41:1–132. Hershler, R. 2001. Systematics of the North and Central American aquatic snail genus Tryonia (Rissooidea: Hydrobiidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 612. 53 pp. Hershler, R. 2011. Personal communication: email from R. Hershler, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Invertebrate Zoology, to Nathan Allan, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. December 9, 2011. 1 p. Hershler, R. and D.W. Sada. 2002. Biogeography of Great Basin aquatic snails of the genus Pyrgulopsis. Pages 255–276, In R. Hershler, D.B. Madsen, and D.R. Curry, eds. Great Basin aquatic systems history. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. 3 Literature Cited, West Texas Aquatic Invertebrates Proposed Listing and Critical Habitat 8/6/2012 Hershler, R., Hsiu-Ping Liu, and B.K. Lang. 2010. Transfer of Cochliopa texana to Pyrgulopsis (Hydrobiidae) and description of a third congener from the lower Pecos River Basin. Journal of Molluscan Studies 76:245–256. Hershler, R., Hsiu-Ping Liu, and J.J. Landye. 2011. New species and records of springsnails (Caenogastropoda: Cochliopidae: Tryonia) from the Chihuahuan Desert (Mexico and United States), an imperiled biodiversity hotspot. Zootaxa 3001:1–32. 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