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Mayden, R.L., F.B. Cross, and O.T. Gorman. 1987. Distributional history of the rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax (Salmoniformes: Osmeridae), in the Mississippi River Basin. Copeia 1987(4):1051-1054.
Reference Details:
Reference Number: 709
Type: Journal Article
Author: Mayden, R.L., F.B. Cross, and O.T. Gorman
Date (year): 1987
Article Title:Distributional history of the rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax (Salmoniformes: Osmeridae), in the Mississippi River Basin.
Journal Name: Copeia
Volume: 1987
Issue: 4
Pages: 1051-1054
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Keywords: rainbow smelt, Mississippi River, distribution, Osmerus mordax
Species Profiles and Specimens that use this Reference:

Osmerus mordax

    AR - Mississippi River, AR, lower Mississippi-Memphis drainage, at common border with TN
    IA - Missouri River, Harrison County, Missouri River, IA
    IL - state non-specific
    IL - Illinois River near upper Peoria Lake
    IN - Ohio River near Madison, in vicinity of the Clifty Creek Power Plant, River Mile 560
    KS - Missouri River near Leavenworth, KS
    KY - Mississippi River, KY
    LA - Mississippi River, LA
    LA - Mississippi River, LA
    LA - Mississippi River, LA
    LA - Mississippi River, LA
    MO - Missouri River at Lower Missouri-Blackwater section
    MO - Missouri River near Reform, Callaway County, MO
    MO - near St. Joseph, lower Missouri River, MO
    MO - near Glasgow, Missouri River, MO
    MO - Missouri River near Easley, Boone County, MO
    MO - Missouri River at dike 501.6, ca. 305 m east-southeast of junction of the Missouri River and Holt-Andrew County line, Andrew County
    MO - Missouri River at mile 411.5 near Oak Mills, Atchison County, Kansas
    MT - Missouri River near North Dakota State Line
    ND - Lake Sakakawea (created by Garrison Dam)
    NE - Lewis and Clark Lake
    SD - Lake Oahe
    SD - Lake Sharpe
    SD - Lake Francis Case, a Missouri River impoundment in south central SD
    SD - Lewis and Clark Lake
    TN - Mississippi River, TN
    WI - Upper Wisconsin drainage
    WI - Namekagon drainage [upper ]

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