- Independence Valley tui chub
Taxobox | name = Independence Valley tui chub
status = EX
regnum =Animalia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Actinopterygii
ordo =Cypriniformes
familia =Cyprinidae
genus = "Gila"
species = "Gila bicolor "
subspecies = "G. b. isolata"
trinomial = "Gila bicolor isolata"
trinomial_authority = Hubbs & Miller, 1972
synonyms = "Siphateles bicolor isolata"The Independence Valley tui chub, "Gila bicolor isolata", was a subspecies of
tui chub endemic to the drainage of theIndependence Valley in northernNevada . Described as "abundant" when first collected and identified in 1965, it was extinct within less than a decade due to the introduction of sunfish, bass, andcarp to the previously isolated watershed.
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