Abstract of Smith, G.R. 1983. History of fishes of the Great Basin. Trans. Bonneville Chapt. Amer. Fish. Soc. 1983:212-215.

Thirty-six species of fishes inhabit the hydrologically confined great basin. These depauperate communities are the remnants of the huge Pleistocene lakes whose cycles of transgression and regression prevented evolution and accumulation of a rich fish fauna.