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Etnier, D.A., and W.C. Starnes. 1993. The fishes of Tennessee. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN.
Reference Details:
Reference Number: 705
Type: Book
Author: Etnier, D.A., and W.C. Starnes.
Date (year): 1993
Edition:
Title:The fishes of Tennessee.
Publisher:The University of Tennessee Press
Publisher Location:Knoxville, TN
Volume:
Pages: 681 pp
URL:
Keywords: Tennessee, fishes, Lepisosteus platostomus, shortnose gar, Lepomis humilis, orange spotted sunfish, Lepomis microlophus, redear sunfish, gizzard shad, dorosoma cepedianum, Phenacobius mirabilis, Ictiobus cyprinellus, Lepomis auritus
Species Profiles and Specimens that use this Reference:

Alosa chrysochloris

    TN - Caney drainage
    TN - Cordell Hull Reservoir
    TN - Holston drainage
    TN - Pigeon drainage
     - Watts Bar Lake (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - lower Clinch drainage

Alosa pseudoharengus

    TN - Tennessee River up to 100 km below Watauga Reservoir
    TN - Dale Hollow Reservoir
    TN - Dale Hollow Reservoir, (tailwaters) up to 100 km below dam
    TN - Watauga Reservoir [=Lake]

Ambloplites rupestris

    MO - Little River Ditches drainage

Ameiurus platycephalus

    NC - Nolichucky River
    NC - Little Tennessee River
    NC - Hiwassee River system

Carassius auratus

    TN - Cumberland River
    TN - Tennessee River
    TN - Mississippi River
    TN - Douglas [Lake] Reservoir in east Tennessee
    TN - Hatchie River (extreme upper) near confluence of Mosses Creek
    TN - Rutherford Fork of the Obion River
    TN - Pickwick Lake
    TN - Lake Barkley
    TN - Old Hickory Lake Reservoir
    TN - Dale Hollow Reservoir
    TN - Hickory Creek near Viola
    TN - Woods Reservoir
    TN - Tims Ford Lake
    TN - French Broad-Holston (HUC6) non-specific
    TN - Chickamauga Lake Reservoir

Coregonus artedi

    TN - Calderwood Reservoir

Ctenopharyngodon idella

    TN - Laurel Hill Lake (nw corner of county)
    TN - Reelfoot Lake
    TN - Mississippi River
    TN - Obion River
    TN - Forked Deer River
    TN - Hatchie River
    TN - McKellar Lake in Memphis [adjacent to the Mississippi River]

Culaea inconstans

    TN - Obey River near Celina
    TN - ponds and creeks of the White Oak Creek system near Oak Ridge in Roane County

Cyprinella venusta

    TN - Kentucky Lake [Tennessee River]

Cyprinus carpio

    MN - Parley Lake near St. Bonifacius
    MN - Clearwater Lake
    TN - Boone Lake Reservoir
    TN - French Broad-Holston (HUC6) non-specific
    TN - Upper Tennessee (HUC6) non-specific
    TN - Middle Tennessee-Hiwassee (HUC6) non-specific
    TN - Upper Cumberland (HUC6) non-specific
    TN - Lower Cumberland (HUC6) non-specific
    TN - Upper Elk drainage
    TN - upper Duck River
    TN - Lower Duck River
    TN - western Tennessee; Mississippi River and its tribs
    TN - South Fork Cumberland drainage
    TN - South Fork Holston HUC-8
    TN - Watauga drainage
     - Nolichucky (HUC8) non-specific
     - Watts Bar Lake (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - Upper Clinch system
    TN - Powell (HUC-8)
    TN - Lower Clinch drainage
    TN - Emory (HUC-8)
    TN - Hiwassee (HUC-8)
    TN - Pickwick Lake (HUC-8)
    TN - Kentucky Lake (HUC-8)
    TN - Obey (HUC-8)
    TN - Caney (HUC-8)
    TN - Lower Cumberland-Old Hickory Lake (HUC-8)
    TN - Stones (HUC-8)
    TN - Lower Cumberland (HUC-8)
    TN - South Fork Obion (HUC-8)
    TN - North Fork Forked Deer (HUC-8)
    TN - South Fork Forked Deer (HUC-8)
    TN - Upper Hatchie (HUC-8)
    TN - Lower Hatchie-Mississippi (HUC-8)
    TN - Horn Lake-Nonconnah (HUC-8)

Dorosoma cepedianum

    TN - Lower Little Tennessee drainage
    TN - Obey (HUC-8)
    TN - Upper Cumberland-Cordell Hull Reservoir (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - Holston drainage
    NC - Watauga drainage
     - Nolichucky (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - South Fork Cumberland drainage
    TN - Obey (HUC-8)
    TN - Upper Cumberland-Cordell Hull Reservoir (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - Holston drainage
    NC - Watauga drainage
     - Nolichucky (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - Lower Clinch drainage
    TN - Emory (HUC-8)
    TN - Caney (HUC-8)
    TN - lower French Broad drainage
     - Watts Bar Lake (HUC8) non-specific
    NC - upper French Broad drainage
    NC - Pigeon drainage
    TN - Lower Little Tennessee drainage
    TN - South Fork Cumberland drainage
    TN - Obey drainage
    TN - Upper Cumberland-Cordell Hull Reservoir (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - Holston drainage
    TN - Watauga, North Carolina, Tennessee drainage
     - Nolichucky (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - Lower Clinch drainage
    TN - Emory drainage
    TN - lower French Broad drainage
    TN - Watts Bar Lake drainage
    NC - upper French Broad drainage
    NC - Pigeon drainage
    TN - Little Tennessee system
    TN - Caney drainage

Dorosoma petenense

    TN - Lower Elk drainage
    AL - Pickwick Lake drainage
    AL - Guntersville Lake drainage
    AL - Wheeler Lake drainage
    AL - Bear River system
     - Lower Cumberland (HUC8) non-specific
    VA - Upper Clinch, Tennessee, Virginia drainage
    VA - Powell drainage
    VA - South Fork Holston drainage
    TN - Watauga, North Carolina, Tennessee drainage
    TN - Lower Clinch drainage
    TN - Lower Cumberland-Old Hickory Lake (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - Caney drainage
    TN - Stones (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - Holston drainage
    TN - lower French Broad drainage
    TN - Watts Bar Lake drainage
    TN - middle Tennessee-Chickamauga drainage
    TN - Upper Elk drainage
    TN - Hiwassee drainage

Esox lucius

    TN - South Holston River
    TN - Little River
    TN - Melton Hill Lake Reservoir (Clinch River)
    VA - South Fork Holston drainage

Esox masquinongy

    TN - Norris Reservoir

Gambusia affinis

    TN - state non-specific
    TN - Barren drainage (in Tennessee)

Hybognathus hankinsoni

    TN - Powell River

Hypentelium etowanum

    TN - Baker Creek, trib. of Parksville Reservoir, Polk County, Ocoee system

Hypentelium nigricans

    TN - Conasauga drainage

Hypophthalmichthys nobilis

    MO - Mississippi River in Lower Mississippi-Memphis drainage
    TN - Mississippi River

Ictalurus furcatus

    TN - Conasauga drainage

Lepomis auritus

    TN - North Fork Holston
    TN - South Fork Holston River
    TN - Watauga drainage
    TN - Holston drainage
    TN - upper French Broad drainage
    TN - Pigeon drainage
    TN - lower French Broad drainage
    TN - Nolichucky River
    TN - Watts Barr Lake (Tennessee River)
    TN - Little Tennessee system
    TN - Tuckasegee drainage
    TN - Lower Little Tennessee drainage
    TN - Holly Fork Creek near Nobles
    TN - middle Fork Forked Deer River in Carroll County
    TN - Conasauga drainage
    TN - Upper Tennessee (HUC6) non-specific
    TN - Upper Clinch system
    TN - Powell system
    TN - lower Clinch drainage
    TN - Hiwassee drainage
    TN - Emory drainage
    TN - middle Tennessee-Chickamauga drainage
    TN - Ocoee (HUC-8)
    TN - Sequatchie (HUC-8)
    TN - Wheeler Lake (HUC-8)
    TN - South Fork Obion (HUC-8)
    AL - Tennessee drainage (Guntersville Lake HUC)
    AL - Tennessee drainage

Lepomis gibbosus

    TN - South Fork Holston Lake Reservoir
    TN - Boone Lake Reservoir

Lepomis gulosus

    TN - Lower Cumberland (HUC-8)
    VA - Upper Clinch system
     - Upper Cumberland (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - Powell (HUC-8)
    TN - South Fork Cumberland drainage
    VA - South Fork Holston drainage
    TN - Obey (HUC-8)
    TN - Upper Cumberland-Cordell Hull Reservoir (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - Holston drainage
    NC - Watauga drainage
    TN - Lower Cumberland-Old Hickory Lake (HUC-8)
     - Nolichucky (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - Harpeth (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - lower Clinch drainage
    TN - Emory (HUC-8)
    TN - Caney (HUC-8)
    TN - Stones (HUC-8)
    TN - lower French Broad drainage
     - Watts Bar Lake (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - Sequatchie (HUC-8)
    ID - Lower Bear-Malad drainage
    TN - middle Tennessee-Chickamauga drainage
    TN - Hiwassee drainage
    TN - Hiwassee drainage
    TN - Sequatchie (HUC-8)
     - Lower Cumberland (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - Stones (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - Caney drainage
     - Upper Cumberland (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - Harpeth (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - Upper Cumberland-Cordell Hull Reservoir (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - South Fork Cumberland drainage
    TN - Obey drainage
    TN - Lower Cumberland-Old Hickory Lake (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - middle Tennessee-Chickamauga drainage
    TN - Lower Little Tennessee drainage
    TN - lower French Broad drainage
    TN - Holston drainage
    VA - Upper Clinch system
    TN - lower Clinch drainage
    TN - Watts Bar Lake drainage
     - Nolichucky (HUC8) non-specific
    VA - Powell drainage
    VA - South Fork Holston drainage
    TN - Watauga, North Carolina, Tennessee drainage
    TN - Emory drainage

Micropterus coosae

    TN - Hiwassee system
    TN - upper part of Emory drainage
    TN - Spring Creek, Roaring River, Flat Creek part of HUC 530106
    TN - upper part of Falling Water River
    TN - upper part of Calfkiller River (Caney drainage)
    TN - Chickamauga Reservoir

Micropterus dolomieu

     - Upper Cumberland (HUC8) non-specific

Micropterus punctulatus

     - Upper Cumberland (HUC8) non-specific
    TN - Conasauga drainage

Morone chrysops

    TN - Watauga, North Carolina, Tennessee drainage
    NC - upper French Broad drainage
    GA - Ocoee drainage

Morone chrysops × saxatilis

    AL - Warrior River
    TN - Cherokee Lake Reservoir
    TN - Fort Loudoun Reservoir
    TN - Chickamauga Lake Reservoir

Morone mississippiensis

    TN - Holston drainage
    TN - Lower Clinch drainage
    TN - lower French Broad drainage
    TN - Watts Bar Lake drainage
    TN - Lower Little Tennessee drainage

Morone saxatilis

    TN - Watts Barr Lake (Tennessee River)
    TN - Cumberland Lake
    TN - Melton Hill Reservoir (Clinch River)
    TN - Kentucky Lake [Tennessee River]

Notropis chrosomus

    AL - Black Warrior drainage
    AL - Town Creek system, Tennessee drainage
    GA - South Chickamauga Creek, Tennessee drainage

Notropis texanus

    TN - Robinson Creek, Hardin County (southern border of state)

Noturus insignis

    NC - Watauga River above Watauga Reservoir
    TN - Watauga River above Watauga Reservoir
    VA - North Fork Holston River

Oncorhynchus clarkii

    TN - Center Hill Reservoir in Cumberland River System
    TN - Dale Hollow Reservoir
    TN - Wilbur Reservoir tailwater (Tennessee drainage)

Oncorhynchus kisutch

    TN - Watauga Reservoir [=Lake]
    TN - Watauga Reservoir [=Lake]

Oncorhynchus mykiss

    TN - Dale Hollow Reservoir, tailrace
    TN - Little River, Great Smokey Mts. National Park
    TN - Blue Ridge, streams and reservoirs (Tennessee drainage)
    TN - Highland Rim reservoirs
    TN - reservoirs of the Cumberland plateau (eastern TN, west of the Tennessee River)
    TN - Norris Reservoir tailwaters
    TN - Dale Hollow Reservoir tailwaters
    TN - Center Hill Reservoir tailwaters
    TN - Little Tennessee River below Chilhowee Dam (prior to Tellico Dam)
    TN - Upper Tennessee (HUC6) non-specific
    TN - Middle Tennessee-Hiwassee (HUC6) non-specific
    TN - Upper Cumberland (HUC6) non-specific
    TN - Upper Elk drainage
    TN - Conasauga drainage

Oncorhynchus nerka

    TN - Little Tennessee River
    TN - Watauga Reservoir [=Lake]

Osmerus mordax

    TN - Watauga Reservoir [=Lake]
    TN - South Fork Holston Reservoir
    TN - Mississippi River

Perca flavescens

    NC - Hiwassee drainage
    TN - Hiwassee drainage
    TN - Tennessee drainage (widespread)
    TN - Pickwick Lake
    TN - Tennessee River at Big Sandy River
    TN - Fort Loudoun Reservoir
    TN - Melton Hill Reservoir (Clinch River)
    TN - Tellico Reservoir

Percina tanasi

    TN - Hiwassee River in Polk County
    TN - Nolichucky River
    TN - lower Holston River, TN
    TN - lower French Broad drainage
    TN - lower Holston River, TN
    TN - Middle Elk River

Pimephales promelas

    TN - state non-specific

Salmo letnica

    TN - Watauga Reservoir [=Lake]

Salmo trutta

    TN - Little Tennessee River, lower
    TN - Norris Reservoir tailwater
    TN - French Broad-Holston (HUC6) non-specific
    TN - Upper Tennessee (HUC6) non-specific
    TN - Conasauga drainage
    TN - Hiwassee River
    TN - South Fork Cumberland drainage
    TN - Cumberland River below Dale Hollow Lake
    TN - Caney drainage
    TN - Cumberland River near Dixon Springs

Salmo trutta × Salvelinus fontinalis

    TN - state non-specific

Salvelinus fontinalis

    TN - Cumberland drainage

Salvelinus namaycush

    TN - Dale Hollow Reservoir

Sander canadensis × vitreus

    ND - state non-specific
    TN - Fort Loudoun Reservoir, tailrace

Sander vitreus

    TN - Cumberland drainage
    TN - Tims Ford Lake

Strongylura marina

    TN - Kentucky Lake [Tennessee River]


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