| Specimen ID | 263599 |
| Group | Fishes |
| Genus | Dorosoma |
| Species | petenense |
| Common Name | Threadfin Shad |
| State | MO |
| Locality | Mississippi River, Open River Reach station, near Cape Girardeau |
| Mapping Accuracy | Approximate |
| HUC8 Name | Upper Mississippi-Cape Girardeau |
| HUC8 Number | 07140105 |
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| Collection Year | 1991 |
| Year Accuracy | Actual |
| Potential Pathway | stocked for forage |
| Status | established |
| Reference 1 |
| Ref. Number: | 14920 |
| Author: | Irons, K.S., S.A. Delain, E. Gittinger, B.S. Ickes, C.S. Kolar, D. Ostendorf, E.N. Ratcliff, and A.J. Benson. |
| Date: | 2009 |
| Title: | Non-native fishes in the Upper Mississippi River System. |
| Publisher: | US Geological Survey and US Army Corps of Engineers [Long Term Resources Monitoring Program (LTRMP)]. |
| Issue: | Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5176 |
| Pages: | 1-131 |
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| Comments | Native range of the threadfin shad is somewhat debated. 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 |
