Update of Distribution of the Chestnut Lamprey in Arkansas

• Published in: Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science
• Main Authors: Salinger, Jeremiah, Johnson, Ronald L., Wagner, Brian
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks@UARK 2018
• Subjects: Chestnut Lamprey; distribution; records; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Hudson Bay
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/jaas/vol72/iss1/26; https://doi.org/10.54119/jaas.2018.7229; https://scholarworks.uark.edu/context/jaas/article/3321/viewcontent/MS3321.pdf; https://scholarworks.uark.edu/context/jaas/article/3321/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/3321Appendix_I.pdf

Most lamprey species other than sea lampreys have been poorly studied in North America. The chestnut lamprey, Ichthyomyzon castaneus, has a distribution within the Mississippi River and Hudson Bay drainage systems, and the Great Lakes. Since the text Fishes of Arkansas was published in 1988, few papers have been published to update the statewide distribution of this lamprey. We incorporated our electrofishing sampling results with gray and published literature to describe the distribution of this species in the drainage basins of the State of Arkansas. Reported are records of 250 chestnut lamprey specimens, over a 90 year period, from 47 different waterbodies in the state.