NANFA-- Dwarf Crayfish Collection Sites

Mark (markb_at_columbus.rr.com)
Tue, 31 Dec 2002 19:44:59 -0500

OK, sorry about the delay. Here are my dwarf crayfish sites in Arkansas
and Kentucky:

10-26-1999 Easley Creek, Arkadelphia Arkansas
Collected at Easley Creek, tributary of the Ouachita River, at the county
line between Hot Spring and Clark Counties. This is NE of Arkadelphia and
just east of Witherspoon. Species collected:

Lepomis cyanellus
Lepomis gulosus
Lepomis machrochirus
Lepomis marginatus
Lepomis miniatus
pugnose minnow
banded pygmy sunfish, Ellasoma zonatum
slough darters
emerald shiners
blackspotted topminnow
tadpole madtom
chubsucker
grass shrimp
Gambusia
dwarf crayfish

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Kentucky
6-22-2002
Bayou du Chien NE of Hickman KY.
NE of the town of Hickman, Fulton County, extreme western Kentucky.
Page 75 of DeLorme Kentucky Altas & Gazeteer.

Take Upper Bottom Road north out of Hickman. It crosses Bayou du Chien and
turns left. It then turns to the right and continues north. Pull off at
the second (right) turn. There is access there to the flooded bottom land
along Bayou du Chien. This is not far from the mouth of the river where
it meets the Mississippi River. Species collected:

Lepomis megalotis
Lepomis gulosus
Centrarchus macrops
gar
bigmouth and/or silver carp
freshwater drum
Morone sp?
buffalo and/or carpsucker species
Etheostoma sp? (gulf darter?)
Percina sp?
Cyprinus carpio
dwarf crayfish
others

Mark
Ohio
USA
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