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Burr, B.M., D.J. Eisenhour, K.M. Cook, C.A. Taylor, G.L. Seegert, R.W. Sauer, and E.R. Atwood. 1996. Nonnative fishes in Illinois waters: what do the records reveal? Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 89(1/2):73-91.
Reference Details:
Reference Number: 1358
Type: Journal Article
Author: Burr, B.M., D.J. Eisenhour, K.M. Cook, C.A. Taylor, G.L. Seegert, R.W. Sauer, and E.R. Atwood
Date (year): 1996
Article Title:Nonnative fishes in Illinois waters: what do the records reveal?
Journal Name: Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science
Volume: 89
Issue: 1/2
Pages: 73-91
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Keywords: Illinois, rainbow smelt; Mississippi River, grass carp, bighead carp, white perch, rudd, silver carp, Misgurnus, oriental weatherfish, inland silverside, striped mullet, pirapatinga, goldfish
Species Profiles and Specimens that use this Reference:

Carassius auratus

    IL - Old Clear Creek channel pool at culvert (Clear Creek dr) on Tamms Rd., 1.5 mi E McClure
    IL - Clear Creek levee, adjacent ditch 1.5 mi NNW Gale
    IL - Clear Creek Drive ditch, next to road, 2.0 mi SE McClure
    IL - Mississippi River at Grand Tower, Devil's Backbone Park, Jackson County
    IL - Mississippi River at Grand Tower aerial pipeline crossing
    IL - Horseshoe Lake spillway (Cache R. dr) 1.0 mi E of Miller City

Ctenopharyngodon idella

    IL - Horseshoe Lake spillway (west side ditch) (Cache R. dr) 1.0 mi. E of Miller City
    IL - Horseshoe Lake (Cache R. dr) west arm and near dam
    IL - Big Muddy River at Rattlesnake Ferry
    IL - Kaskaskia River, Pelican Pouch, about 4 mi. SSW Carlyle
    IL - Mississippi River, Pool 25, Cockerill Hollow Access at Batchtown, RM 243.5
    IL - Lake Creek (Cache River Drive), at Illinois Highway 3/127 crossing
    IL - Cache River, (Ohio River Drive), just east of Jct. Hwy 3 and 127, 1.5 miles south of Unity
    IL - Clear Creek, main ditch, 4 miles NNE Gale, near mouth of Sexton Creek

Hypophthalmichthys molitrix

    IL - Mississippi River, RM 160 at Merrimac
    IL - Big Muddy River at Rattlesnake Ferry
    IL - Horseshoe Lake (Cache R. dr)
    IL - Horseshoe Lake, ditch, 0.25 mi W of spillway on Promised Land Road

Hypophthalmichthys nobilis

    IL - Rattlesnake Ferry, Mississippi River drainage [Big Muddy River]
    IL - Horseshoe Lake, spillway, 1.0 mi E of Miller City
    IL - Kaskaskia River, near Covington
    IL - Big Muddy River, at Route 3 crossing, S side of bridge near Aldridge
    IL - Big Muddy River at Rattlesnake Ferry
    IL - Horseshoe Lake Spillway (Cache River), 0.5 mi east of Miller City
    IL - Cache River diversion canal, 1/2 mi upstream from Rt. 3 in diversion canal near confluence of Cache and Mississippi Rivers
    IL - Big Muddy River, just south of Murphysboro
    IL - Lake Creek at spillway
    IL - Lake Creek below spillway at Horseshoe Lake
    IL - Lake Creek at spillway
    IL - Carlyle Reservoir

Misgurnus anguillicaudatus

    IL - North Shore Channel (Lake Michigan Dr.) Dempster St., in Skokie
    IL - North Shore Channel (Lake Michigan Dr.) Dempster St., in Skokie
    IL - North Shore Channel (Lake Michigan Dr.) Dempster St., in Skokie
    IL - Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal, RM 321

Morone americana

    IL - Lake Calumet system
    IL - Illinois River (upper)
    IL - Illinois River, at mouth
    IL - Illinois River, entire length
    IL - Calumet River, south of Chicago
    IL - Des Plaines River near Romeoville
    IL - Horseshoe Lake drainage, Alexander County
    IL - Mississippi River, extreme southern IL
    IL - Illinois River, entire length
    IL - Illinois River, entire length
    IL - Illinois River, entire length
    IL - Illinois River, entire length

Osmerus mordax

    IL - Mississippi River at Grand Tower aerial pipeline crossing
    IL - Mississippi River at Grand Tower aerial pipeline crossing
    IL - Mississippi River at Venice boat ramp
    IL - Mississippi River at Chester Boat ramp
    IL - Mississippi River just downstream of mouth of Marys River

Piaractus brachypomus

    IL - Little Grassy Lake, near girl scout camp (Big Muddy drainage)

Scardinius erythrophthalmus

    IL - Avon-Fremont drainage ditch at Grayslake
    IL - Twin Lake at Silver Springs State Park
    IL - Foli Dark Pond at Plano [Foli Park?]
    IL - Kankakee River 0.5 mi N Custer Park
    IL - Kankakee River, 500m downstream w/ confluence of Horse Creek E bank
    IL - Kankakee River 5.5 mi ESE Ritchie
    IL - Des Plaines River at RM 273.3, 4 mi S Minooka at mouth
    IL - Carlyle Reservoir


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