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The lake is a critical habitat for several species of migratory birds, such as the American white pelican, and home to thousands of indigenous plants and animals. The Audubonistas de Laguna de Chapala holds an annual Audubon Society sponsored Christmas Bird Count .
This harmless snake is semi-aquatic and most of the 10 recognized subspecies are restricted to lake basins in Mexico. This snake ranges in habitat from deserts and sky island forests of Arizona and New Mexico to thornscrub and rainforests of Mexico. One subspecies, the Lake Chapala garter snake (T. e. obscurus), is Endemic to Lake Chapala.
Chirostoma is a genus of Neotropical silversides from the Lerma River basin in Mexico, including lakes Chapala and Pátzcuaro.Fish in the genus collectively go by the common name charal/charales in their native range (a name also used for the related Poblana).
Isla de los Alacranes (Scorpion Island) is an island in Lake Chapala, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. [1]It is so called because it is shaped as a scorpion. [1] Many Mexican people use the word "alacrán" for the smaller, most venomous species of scorpion, which are very common in Mexico, while the word "escorpión" is used to describe the larger, darker and less venomous species.
The spotted skiffia is endemic to Mexico in the federal states of Jalisco and Michoacán.It was known to historically inhabit the lower Lerma River drainage where it was also included in several affluents such as the Duero River, Grande de Santiago River drainage and Lake Chapala drainage near Guadalajara.
This is a list of freshwater ecoregions in Latin America and the Caribbean, as identified by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).. The WWF divides the Earth's land surface into ecoregions, defined as "large area[s] of land or water containing a distinct assemblage of natural communities and species".
Chapalichthys is a genus of splitfins that are endemic to west-central Mexico, where found in lakes, pools, ponds and channels in the Lerma–Chapala–Grande de Santiago and Balsas basins. [2] [3] Chapalichthys reach up to 9.3 cm (3.7 in) in standard length. Despite this relatively small size, they are often caught as food in Lake Chapala. [2]
Lake Chapala (also in Michoacán) Lake Sayula; Lake Cajititlán; Lake San Marcos; Lake Atotonilco; Mexico City. Lake Xochimilco; Lake Cico; Lake Cacho; Lake Ceko ...