Alternative conservation outcomes from aquatic fauna translocations: Losing and saving the Running River rainbowfish
Karl Moy,
Jason Schaffer,
Michael P. Hammer
et al.
Abstract:The translocation of species outside their natural range is a threat to aquatic biodiversity globally, especially freshwater fishes, as most are not only susceptible to predation and competition but readily hybridize with congeners.
Running River rainbowfish (RRR, Melanotaenia sp.) is a narrow‐ranged, small‐bodied freshwater fish that recently became threatened and was subsequently listed as Critically Endangered, owing to introgressive hybridization and competition following the translocation of a congeneric … Show more
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