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cui-ui

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cui-ui  (kww)
n. pl. cui-ui
A gray-brown sucker (Chasmistes cujus) found only in Nevada.

[Northern Paiute kuyui.]


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For eons it was atop the food chain, wreaking havoc on fish like the cui-ui (Chasmistes cujus) and tui chub (Gila bicolor), and most likely cannibalizing its own.
211) Today, the lake, which supports populations of Lahontan cutthroat trout (212) and cui-ui (213)--both of which are listed under the Endangered Species Act (214)--1ies entirely within the reservation, as do the lower twenty-five miles of the Truckee River.
Pyramid Lake, the terminus of the Truckee River, has also been drying up, its level dropping 100 feet this century and threatening the survival of the cui-ui, a prehistoric fish that lives nowhere else.
 
 
 
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