Specimen ID | 1403510 |
Group | Fishes |
Genus | Dorosoma |
Species | petenense |
Common Name | Threadfin Shad |
Locality | Middle Ohio-Laughery (HUC8) non-specific |
Mapping Accuracy | Centroid |
Centroid Type | HUC8 |
HUC8 Name | Middle Ohio-Laughery |
HUC8 Number | 05090203 |
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Collection Year | 1986 |
Year Accuracy | Publication Year |
Potential Pathway | stocked for sport |
Status | established |
Reference 1 |
Ref. Number: | 82 |
Author: | Burr, B.M., and M.L. Warren, Jr. |
Date: | 1986 |
Title: | A distributional atlas of Kentucky fishes. Scientific and Technical Series No. 4. |
Publisher: | Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission |
Pages: | 398 pp |
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Comments | Before 1945, the threadfin shad was found only in rivers and streams flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, from Florida to Mexico (Forbes and Richardson, 1920; Smith, 1979). Later, its range expanded northward (Trautman, 1981). In 1948, thread - fin shad were discovered in impoundments of the Tennessee River (Tennessee Valley Authority, 1954), and in 1957 the first Illinois specimens were collected from tributaries of the Ohio River (Minckley and Krumholz, 1960). An alternative opinion is that the threadfin shad was originally found as far south as Belize and was distributed northward into Gulf States as well as states bordering the lower Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, including Illinois and Missouri (Page and Burr, 1991).[Irons et al. 2009] |
Record Type | Literature |
Freshwater/Marine | Freshwater |