Occurrence | native | ||
Importance | Ref. | ||
Aquaculture | Ref. | ||
Regulations | Ref. | ||
Freshwater | Yes | ||
Brackish | No | ||
Saltwater | No | ||
Live export | |||
Bait | No | ||
Gamefish | No | ||
Abundance | common (usually seen) | Ref. | Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 2011 |
Comments |
Occurs mostly in east USA in Atlantic, Great Lakes, Mississippi, and Gulf basins as far west as Wyoming, and Brazos River in Texas, but absent from Florida and south Georgia; isolated population in the upper Pecos, New Mexico. Introduced elsewhere (Ref. 86798). Transplanted in Colorado River drainage in Texas (Ref. 5723). Type locality: Wallkill River, New York (Ref. 79012). Also Ref. 10294. |
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States/Provinces | Colorado (native), Missouri (native), Montana (native), New York (native), Oklahoma (native), Tennessee (native), Texas (introduced), Wyoming (native) | ||
States/Provinces Complete? | No | ||
National Checklist | |||
Country information | https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html |