History of fish investigations in the Yadkin-Pee Dee River drainage of North Carolina and Virginia with an analysis of nonindigenous species and invasion dynamics of three species of suckers (Catostomidae)

Record #:

28423

Author(s):

Tracy, Bryn H.; Jenkins, Robert E.; Starnes, Wayne C.

Abstract:

North Carolina’s river drainages continue to lose their faunal distinctiveness as nonnative fish species establish themselves and expand their distributions. In the Pee Dee River drainage of North Carolina and Virginia, thirty-four fish species, including three species of suckers, are nonindigenous.

Source:

Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science (NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 129 Issue 3, Fall 2013, p82-106, map, bibl

Subject(s):

Fish species--North Carolina; Introduced fishes--North Carolina, Eastern