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Pflieger, W.L. 1997. The fishes of Missouri. Revised edition. Missouri Department of Conservation, Jefferson City, MO.
Reference Details:
Reference Number: 1737
Type: Book
Author: Pflieger, W.L.
Date (year): 1997
Edition: Revised
Title:The fishes of Missouri.
Publisher:Missouri Department of Conservation
Publisher Location:Jefferson City, MO
Volume:
Pages: 372 pp
URL:
Keywords: grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella, Missouri, Phenacobius mirabilis, salmo trutta, rudd, Scardinius erythrophthalmus
Species Profiles and Specimens that use this Reference:

Ameiurus catus

    MO - Missouri River, Boone County
    MO - Big Creek arm of Truman Reservoir, Henry County
    MO - Mississippi River on Illinois border; at Perry/Cape Girardeau County border

Carassius auratus

    MO - Rose Pond [vicinity of Des Moines River, ~3 mi SW of Alexandria]
    MO - Adair County [SE part of county]
    MO - Lewis County [SE region adjacent to the Mississippi River]
    MO - Atchison County [NW region of county near the Missouri River]
    MO - Jackson County [near Kansas City and the confluence of the Missouri and Blue rivers]
    MO - Missouri River [vicinity of Dover]
    MO - Morgan County [NW part of county]
    MO - Grand River [south-central part of county]
    MO - Phelps County [NE part of county]
    MO - Camden County [Lake of the Ozarks region]
    MO - Perry County [SW part of county]

Cyprinella venusta

    MO - Stockton Reservoir in SW Missouri
    MO - Brush Creek below Stockton Reservoir
    MO - Cedar Creek below Stockton Reservoir

Esox lucius

    MO - Osage River below Harry S. Truman Reservoir

Esox masquinongy

    MO - Hazel Creek Lake in Adair County
    MO - Lake Girardeau

Fundulus catenatus

    MO - Cuivre River system
    MO - Loutre drainage
    MO - Moreau River
    MO - Lamine River drainage

Gambusia affinis

    MO - The Sny
    MO - Peruque-Piasa
    MO - Lower Missouri
    KS - Little Osage
    MO - South Fork Salt
    MO - Little Chariton
    MO - Harry S. Truman Reservoir
    MO - Current
    MO - Lower Missouri-Moreau
    KS - Lower Marais Des Cygnes
    MO - Lamine
    KS - Marmaton
    MO - Cuivre
    AR - Strawberry
    AR - Spring
    AR - Middle White
    MO - Bull Shoals Lake
    AR - Lower Black
    MO - Upper Black
    AR - Beaver Reservoir
    AR - Upper White-Village
    MO - Independence-Sugar
    MO - Lower Osage
    MO - North Fork White
    MO - South Fabius
    MO - Upper Grand
    MO - South Grand
    MO - Upper Gasconade
    MO - Bear-Wyaconda
    MO - Meramec
    MO - Lower Chariton
    MO - Lower Gasconade
    MO - Big Piney
    MO - North Fabius
    MO - Bourbeuse
    MO - Platte
    MO - Lower Missouri-Crooked
    MO - Pomme De Terre
    AR - Little Red
    MO - Salt

Lepomis gibbosus

     - Thompson (HUC8) non-specific

Lepomis megalotis

    MO - Lake St. Louis, and impoundment on Peruque Creek in St. Charles County

Micropterus dolomieu

    MO - Lamine River drainage

Micropterus punctulatus

    MO - Pomme De Terre (HUC8) non-specific
    MO - Niangua (HUC8) non-specific
    MO - Sac (HUC8) non-specific
     - Thompson (HUC8) non-specific
     - Upper Chariton (HUC8) non-specific
    MO - Perche drainage
     - Lower Missouri (HUC8) non-specific
    MO - Lamine (HUC8) non-specific
    MO - Lower Gasconade (HUC8) non-specific
    MO - Lower Osage (HUC8) non-specific
    MO - Lake of the Ozarks (HUC8) non-specific
    MO - South Fork Salt (HUC8) non-specific
     - Cahokia-Joachim (HUC8) non-specific
    MO - Whitewater (HUC8) non-specific
     - Upper Mississippi-Cape Girardeau (HUC8) non-specific
     - Marmaton (HUC8) non-specific
     - Upper Grand (HUC8) non-specific
    MO - Meramec (HUC8) non-specific
    MO - Bourbeuse (HUC8) non-specific
    MO - Big (HUC8) non-specific
    IL - Cache (HUC8) non-specific

Morone americana

    MO - Lake Contrary
    MO - Big Lake
    MO - Missouri River at western edge of state

Morone americana × saxatilis

    MO - state non-specific

Morone chrysops

    MO - Table Rock Reservoir
    MO - Bull Shoals Reservoir [White River]
    MO - Lake Taneycomo
    MO - Norfork Lake
    SD - Middle Big Sioux drainage
    SD - Lower Big Sioux drainage
    IA - Little Sioux drainage
    IA - Blackbird-Soldier drainage
    IA - Big Papillion-Mosquito drainage
    NE - Keg-Weeping Water drainage
     - Upper Chariton (HUC8) non-specific
    MO - Tarkio-Wolf drainage
    MO - Upper Black drainage
    MO - Current drainage
    AR - Spring drainage
     - Thompson (HUC8) non-specific
    MO - Little Chariton drainage

Notropis boops

    MO - Missouri River, below Gasconade River
    MO - Gasconade River
    MO - Loutre River

Notropis buccatus

    MO - St. Francis drainage in Madison County
    MO - Logan Creek tributary, Reynolds County

Perca flavescens

    MO - Butler City Lake, Bates County (artificial lake)
    MO - Blue Jay Lake, Pulaski County (artificial lake)
    MO - Fayette City Lake, Howard County (artificial lake)
    MO - Ethel Lake, Macon County (artificial lake)

Pimephales vigilax

    MO - Chariton River, Chariton County
    MO - Missouri River scour holes directly connected to river in Howard and Saline counties
    MO - Stockton Reservoir in SW Missouri

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