Upper Huang He

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Author(s)

J. Hales

Countries

China

Major Habitat Type

Montane freshwaters

Drainages flowing into

Bohai Sea

Main rivers to other water bodies

Huang He, Qinghai Lake

Description

Boundaries

This is part of the Huang He (Yellow River) basin on the Central Asian Plateau, upriver of Guide (Qinghai Province), and endorheic basins of Qinghai.

Description of endemic fishes

8 endemic species

Justification for delineation

Delineations were determined using a bottom-up approach that employed both published and unpublished field data and expert assessment (Abell et al. 2008). This area is distinguished as its own zoogeographic region according to Li (1981), Wu and Wu (1992), and Zhang (1995). The ecoregion has low richness, but a high percentage of endemics (M. Kottelat pers. comm. Jan. 16, 2006).

References

Abell, Robin,M.L. Thieme,C. Revenga,M. Bryer,M. Kottelat,N. Bogutskaya,B. Coad,N. Mandrak,S.C. Balderas,W. Bussing,M.L.J. Stiassny,P. Skelton,G.R. Allen,P. Unmack,A. Naseka,R. Ng,N. Sindorf,J. Robertson,E. Armijo,J.V. Higgins,T.J. Heibel,E. Wikramanayake, (2008). "Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Biogeographic Units for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation" BioScience 58 (5) pp. 403-414.
Li, Sizhong (1981). "Studies on zoogeographical divisions for fresh water fishes of China" Beijing, China: Science Press.
Wu, Yunfei;Wu, Cuizhen (1992). "The fishes of the Qinghai-Xizang plateau" Chengdu, China: Sichuan Publishing House of Science and Technology.
Zhang, J. M. (1995) Fishes of the Heilungjiang Heilungjiang Scientific Press : Harbin