| Specimen ID | 1403551 |
| Group | Fishes |
| Genus | Dorosoma |
| Species | petenense |
| Common Name | Threadfin Shad |
| State | AL |
| Locality | Wheeler Lake drainage |
| Mapping Accuracy | Centroid |
| Centroid Type | HUC8 |
| HUC8 Name | Wheeler Lake |
| HUC8 Number | 06030002 |
| Map | |
| Collection Year | 1996 |
| Year Accuracy | Publication Year |
| Potential Pathway | stocked for sport |
| Status | established |
| Reference 1 |
| Ref. Number: | 1563 |
| Author: | Mettee, M.F., P.E. O'Neil, and J.M. Pierson. |
| Date: | 1996 |
| Title: | Fishes of Alabama and the Mobile Basin. |
| Publisher: | Oxmoor House, Inc, Birmingham, AL. |
| Pages: | 820 pp |
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| Reference 2 |
| Ref. Number: | 14971 |
| Author: | Boschung, H.T., Jr., and R.L. Mayden. |
| Date: | 2004 |
| Title: | Fishes of Alabama. |
| Publisher: | Smithsonian Books |
| Pages: | 736 pp |
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| Reference 3 |
| Ref. Number: | 705 |
| Author: | Etnier, D.A., and W.C. Starnes. |
| Date: | 1993 |
| Title: | The fishes of Tennessee. |
| Publisher: | The University of Tennessee Press |
| Pages: | 681 pp |
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| Comments | Boschung and Mayden 2004 say introduced to TN drainage; Mettee et al. say native to TN drainage; Etnier and Starnes 1993 say native; In 1948, thread - fin shad were first discovered in impoundments of the Tennessee River (Tennessee Valley Authority, 1954)[Irons et al. 2009]; stocked in TVA reservoirs in 1940s-1950s (Laird and Page, 1996). |
| Record Type | Literature |
| Freshwater/Marine | Freshwater |
