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Cooper, E.L. 1983. Fishes of Pennsylvania and the Northeastern United States. Pennsylvania State University Press University Park, PA.
Reference Details:
Reference Number: 211
Type: Book
Author: Cooper, E.L.
Date (year): 1983
Edition:
Title:Fishes of Pennsylvania and the Northeastern United States.
Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press University Park, PA.
Publisher Location:
Volume:
Pages: 243 pp.
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Keywords: Pennsylvania, fishes, Lepomis microlophus, redear sunfish, Dorosoma cepedianum, gizzard shad, Noturus insignus
Species Profiles and Specimens that use this Reference:

Ambloplites rupestris

    PA - Tioga drainage
    PA - upper Susquehanna (HUC 8)
    PA - Chemung drainage
    PA - Owego-Wappasening drainage
    PA - Bald Eagle drainage
    PA - upper Susquehanna-Tunkhannock drainage
    PA - upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna drainage
    PA - upper West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - middle West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Pine drainage
    PA - lower West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna-Penns drainage
    PA - upper Juniata drainage
    PA - Raystown drainage
    PA - lower Juniata drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna-Swatara drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna (HUC 8)
    PA - Cacapon-Town drainage
    PA - Conococheague-Opequon drainage of the Potomac
    PA - Monocacy drainage
    PA - Upper Delaware (HUC6) non-specific
    PA - Lower Delaware (HUC6) non-specific
    WA - Puget Sound drainage
    WA - Puget Sound drainage

Ameiurus catus

    PA - Lake Erie
    PA - Ohio drainage

Amia calva

    PA - southernmost portion of Susquehanna near state line

Carassius auratus

    MI - Lake Erie, western
    OH - western Lake Erie
    PA - Ohio drainage, southern part
    PA - Susquehanna drainage, southern part
    PA - southern part of Delaware drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna (HUC 8)
    PA - Bald Eagle drainage

Cyprinus carpio

    PA - Lake Erie drainage
    PA - Ohio drainage
    PA - Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Delaware River drainage
    PA - upper Juniata drainage
    PA - upper Susquehanna drainage
    PA - West Branch Susquehanna (HUC6) non-specific
    PA - Lower Susquehanna (HUC6) non-specific
    PA - West Branch Susquehanna (HUC6) non-specific
    PA - lower Susquehanna drainage
    PA - upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna drainage
    PA - lower West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna-Penns drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna-Swatara drainage
    PA - middle West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Bald Eagle drainage
    PA - upper West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - lower Juniata drainage

Dorosoma cepedianum

    PA - Raystown drainage

Dorosoma petenense

    PA - state non-specific

Esox lucius

    PA - Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Bald Eagle drainage

Esox masquinongy

    PA - state non-specific

Esox reichertii

    PA - Glendale Lake, a man-made reservoir NW of Altoona

Etheostoma blennioides

    PA - Quittapahilla Creek, at Lebanon.

Etheostoma zonale

    MD - Susquehanna drainage
    NY - Susquehanna River
    PA - Pine Creek
    PA - Susquehanna River near Amity Hall
    PA - Susquehanna drainage
    PA - lower Juniata drainage
    PA - lower West Branch Susquehanna drainage

Gambusia holbrooki

    PA - Delaware County

Ictalurus punctatus

    PA - lower Susquehanna (HUC 8)
    PA - Susquehanna drainage
    PA - lower portion of Susquehanna drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna (can't tell which HUC 8 (2050301, 04, or 05)

Lepomis auritus

    OK - state non-specific
    TX - state non-specific

Lepomis cyanellus

    PA - Delaware River drainage
    PA - Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Potomac drainage
    PA - Chemung drainage
    PA - upper Susquehanna-Tunkhannock drainage
    PA - upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna-Penns drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna-Swatara drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna (HUC 8)
    PA - Raystown drainage
    PA - upper West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Conococheague-Opequon drainage of the Potomac
    PA - Monocacy drainage

Lepomis gibbosus

    WV - Ohio River; Upper Ohio-Wheeling drainage

Lepomis gulosus

    PA - lower Delaware drainage
     - French (HUC8) non-specific
     - Shenango (HUC8) non-specific
     - Lower Monongahela (HUC8) non-specific
    PA - Monongahela drainage
     - Shenango (HUC8) non-specific
     - French (HUC8) non-specific

Lepomis macrochirus

    PA - Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Lower Susquehanna (HUC6) non-specific
    PA - Owego-Wappasening drainage
    PA - upper Susquehanna-Tunkhannock drainage
    PA - upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna drainage
    PA - upper West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - middle West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Bald Eagle drainage
    PA - lower West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna-Penns drainage
    PA - upper Juniata drainage
    PA - Raystown drainage
    PA - lower Juniata drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna-Swatara drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna (HUC 8)
    PA - Conococheague-Opequon drainage of the Potomac

Lepomis microlophus

    PA - Susquehanna drainage

Leuciscus idus

    PA - state non-specific

Micropterus dolomieu

    PA - Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Delaware River drainage
    PA - Potomac drainage
    PA - upper Susquehanna (HUC 8)
    PA - Owego-Wappasening drainage
    PA - Tioga drainage
    PA - Chemung drainage
    PA - upper Susquehanna-Tunkhannock drainage
    PA - upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna drainage
    PA - upper West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Sinnemahoning drainage
    PA - middle West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Bald Eagle drainage
    PA - Pine drainage
    PA - lower West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna-Penns drainage
    PA - upper Juniata drainage
    PA - Raystown drainage
    PA - lower Juniata drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna-Swatara drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna (HUC 8)
    PA - North Branch Potomac drainage
    PA - Cacapon-Town drainage
    PA - Conococheague-Opequon drainage of the Potomac
    PA - Monocacy drainage

Micropterus punctulatus

    PA - Upper Ohio drainage

Micropterus salmoides

    PA - Monocacy drainage
    PA - Conococheague-Opequon drainage of the Potomac
    PA - upper Susquehanna-Tunkhannock drainage
    PA - upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna drainage
    PA - upper West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Bald Eagle drainage
    PA - Pine drainage
    PA - lower West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna-Penns drainage
    PA - upper Juniata drainage
    PA - lower Juniata drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna-Swatara drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna (HUC 8)

Morone chrysops

    PA - 2 locations in the lower Susquehanna drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna (HUC 8)
    PA - lower Juniata drainage

Morone saxatilis

    PA - Walker Lake
    PA - Raystown Reservoir
    PA - upper Juniata drainage

Nocomis biguttatus

    PA - upper Susquehanna drainage

Notropis volucellus

    PA - Sherman Creek, mouth at bridge on old Rt. 11-15 in Duncannon

Oncorhynchus gorbuscha

    PA - 4 tributaries of Lake Erie

Oncorhynchus kisutch

    PA - Lake Erie

Oncorhynchus mykiss

    PA - Lake Erie
    PA - Delaware River drainage
    PA - Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Potomac drainage
    PA - Ohio drainage

Oncorhynchus nerka

    PA - Lake Winola, west of Scranton
    PA - Upper Woods Pond northeast of Scranton

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

    NH - state non-specific
    PA - Lake Erie
    PA - Susquehanna River
    PA - Delaware River

Osmerus mordax

    MI - Torch Lake [~3 mi W of Bellaire]
    MI - Lake Michigan
    PA - Schuylkill River below Fairmount Dam
    PA - Lake Erie
    PA - Harvey's Lake near Wilkes Barre
    PA - Harvey's Lake near Wilkes Barre

Pimephales promelas

    PA - Pine drainage
    PA - Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Delaware River drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna (HUC 8)
    PA - upper Susquehanna-Tunkhannock drainage
    PA - upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna drainage
    PA - Sinnemahoning drainage
    PA - Bald Eagle drainage
    PA - upper West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - lower West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna-Penns drainage
    PA - upper Juniata drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna (HUC 8)

Pomoxis annularis

    PA - Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Delaware River drainage
    PA - Crosswicks-Neshaminy drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna (HUC 8)
    PA - lower Susquehanna-Swatara drainage
    PA - upper West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Raystown drainage

Pomoxis nigromaculatus

    PA - Schuylkill drainage
    PA - Delaware River drainage
    PA - Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Delaware River near Bethlehem
    PA - near southeastern part of state, NE of Philadelphia; Crosswicks-Neshaminy drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna (HUC 8)
    PA - upper West Branch Susquehanna drainage

Salmo salar

    PA - state non-specific

Salmo trutta

    PA - state non-specific
    PA - Lake Erie
    PA - Ohio drainage
    PA - Potomac drainage
    PA - Delaware River drainage
    PA - Lake Erie drainage
    PA - upper Susquehanna (HUC 8)
    PA - upper Genessee
    PA - Tioga drainage
    PA - upper Susquehanna-Tunkhannock drainage
    PA - upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna drainage
    PA - upper West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Sinnemahoning drainage
    PA - middle West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Bald Eagle drainage
    PA - Pine drainage
    PA - lower West Branch Susquehanna drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna-Penns drainage
    PA - upper Juniata drainage
    PA - Raystown drainage
    PA - lower Juniata drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna-Swatara drainage
    PA - lower Susquehanna (HUC 8)

Salvelinus namaycush

    PA - Harvey's Lake near Wilkes Barre

Sander vitreus

    PA - Susquehanna drainage
    PA - Delaware River drainage
    PA - Bald Eagle drainage

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