Range Extension of Blackfin Darter and Tennessee Dace, and First Collection of Western Blacknose Dace from Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River in 80 Years

Wood, J; Pugh, M. Worth; Harris, Phillip M.; McGregor, Stuart W.; Sandel, Michael J.

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“…The southeastern United States fosters a diverse, biogeographically complex ichthyofauna (Smith et al 2010). Fine-scale biogeographic hypotheses for this region are often revised as routine sampling provides new distributional information for diverse families of fishes (Jarrett et al 2017, Ray et al 2014, Rider and Schell 2012, Wood et al 2021). One such diverse family, the Ictaluridae (North American freshwater catfishes; 51 spp.…”

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“…Our collections of Snail Bullhead may be the result of either a historical bait-bucket introduction or stream capture—a phenomenon in which a tributary is redirected to an adjacent watershed via temporal geologic changes (Jarrett et al 2017, Wood et al 2021). Both explanations are speculative, but the distribution of the following species in the middle Tallapoosa and Chattahoochee rivers suggests the latter (Jarrett et al 2017).…”

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“…Two separate major streams (each HUC 12; High Pine drainage area: 197.1 km 2 , Chikasanoxee drainage area: 203.8 km 2 ) in the Tallapoosa watershed foster Snail Bullhead individuals with a wide variety of sizes, suggesting that our records represent an established population of Snail Bullhead. Vicariant events resulting from inter-basin transfer often result in small, established distributions of introduced taxa in the watershed that receives the transfer (Ray et al 2014, Jarrett et al 2017, Wood et al 2021), but anthropogenic introduction could also produce a similar pattern under certain circumstances. In the case of a stream capture, it is interesting that earlier collectors did not identify any Snail Bullhead from these 2 streams.…”

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First Records of Ameiurus brunneus (Snail Bullhead) from the Tallapoosa River Watershed, Alabama, with Comments on Mobile–Chattahoochee Stream Captures

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Dattilo

2023

Southeastern Naturalist

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Herein we report on the collection of 9 Ameiurus brunneus (Snail Bullhead) individuals from 2 major stream systems in the middle Tallapoosa River in Chambers and Randolph counties, AL. These specimens represent the first catalogued records of Snail Bullhead from the Tallapoosa River and constitute a range extension for this species. These records cohere with previous evidence suggesting that reciprocal stream captures took place between the Chattahoochee and Middle Tallapoosa watersheds.

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First Records of Ameiurus brunneus (Snail Bullhead) from the Tallapoosa River Watershed, Alabama, with Comments on Mobile–Chattahoochee Stream Captures

Hilburn

Dattilo

2023

Southeastern Naturalist

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“…The Tennessee Dace, Chrosomus tennesseensis (Starnes and Jenkins 1988), had been collected exclusively in the upper Tennessee River watershed until surveys in Graves Creek of the Black Warrior River of the Mobile River watershed uncovered an established population located south of the Tennessee Valley Divide (Wood et al. 2021 ). Ongoing research is investigating how the species came to colonize Graves Creek in northeast Alabama.…”

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“…Currently, the distribution of C. tennesseensis includes north Alabama, eastern Tennessee, southwestern Virginia, western North Carolina, and northwestern Georgia (Etnier and Starnes 1993 ; Wood et al. 2021 ). The species prefers first-order tributaries less than two meters wide, leading to a patchy distribution across its known range (Etnier and Starnes 1993 ).…”

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The complete mitochondrial genome of the Tennessee Dace (Chrosomus tennesseensis)

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Fast

Sandel

2021

Mitochondrial DNA Part B

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The Tennessee Dace, Chrosomus tennesseensis (Starnes and Jenkins 1988), is a small minnow (Cypriniformes: Leuciscidae) found in the upper Tennessee River watershed and Graves Creek, in the Mobile River watershed. Chrosomus tennesseensis occurs sporadically throughout its range and has been listed as vulnerable by the IUCN (NatureServe). Until recently, C. tennesseensis had been known only to occur in the upper Tennessee River watershed, however, it has been discovered in headwaters of the Black Warrior River of the Mobile River watershed. We sequenced the mitochondrial genome of C. tennesseensis collected in the Mobile River watershed to better understand the colonization of the Mobile River watershed and the interspecific relationships of Chrosomus . Furthermore, the availability of the mitochondrial genome will assist in designing specific environmental DNA (eDNA) primers that will allow for less intrusive sampling of threatened and endangered Chrosomus species.

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Identification of non-native populations and reconstruction of invasion routes in the Redbreast Sunfish Lepomis auritus

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Simmons,

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2024

Biol Invasions

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Non-native species pose major threats to native biodiversity and human-mediated introduction of species is expected to increase globally. Lepomis auritus (Redbreast Sun sh), a carnivorous freshwater sh native to rivers in eastern North America, has been introduced far outside of its native range due to its popularity in recreational sheries. However, poor documentation of introductions and lack of thorough ichthyofaunal surveys before the mid-20th century prevent a con dent reconstruction of non-native populations of L. auritus over the past 90 years, resulting in a failure to develop proper invasive species management. Phylogenomic analyses of ddRAD data identify non-native populations of L. auritus that are now abundant in rivers of high conservation priority, which highlights the need for invasive species management for these populations. Our protocols allow for the reconstruction of complicated introduction routes and reveal that L. auritus in Texas is the result of a single-source introduction from the Suwannee River, the population in the upper Tennessee River has two sources of introduction from the Savannah River and the northeastern rivers that drain into the Atlantic Ocean, and the upper Tennessee River and Apalachicola River were the introduction sources for the populations in the middle Tennessee River and the Mobile River Basin. Ecological and evolutionary investigations of the non-native populations of L. auritus will broaden the understanding of biological invasions.

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Range Extension of Blackfin Darter and Tennessee Dace, and First Collection of Western Blacknose Dace from Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River in 80 Years

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First Records of Ameiurus brunneus (Snail Bullhead) from the Tallapoosa River Watershed, Alabama, with Comments on Mobile–Chattahoochee Stream Captures

First Records of Ameiurus brunneus (Snail Bullhead) from the Tallapoosa River Watershed, Alabama, with Comments on Mobile–Chattahoochee Stream Captures

The complete mitochondrial genome of the Tennessee Dace (Chrosomus tennesseensis)

Identification of non-native populations and reconstruction of invasion routes in the Redbreast Sunfish Lepomis auritus

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