Quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus) distribution and status by HUC8

Jul 28, 2011 (Last modified Jun 16, 2020)
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D’Amours, J., S. Thibodeau, and R. Fortin. 2001. Comparison of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens), Stizostedion spp., Catostomus spp., Moxostoma spp., quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus), and mooneye (Hiodon tergisus) larval drift in Des Prairies River, Quebec. Journal of Canadian Zoology 79(8):1472-1489.

Parker, B.R. and W.G. Franzin. 1991. Reproductive biology of the quillback Carpiodes cyprinus, in a small prairie river. Canadian Journal of Zoology 69(8):2133-2139.

Spiegel, J.R., M.C. Quist, and J.E. Morris. 2010. Precision of scales and pectoral fin rays for estimating age of highfin carpsucker, quillback carpsucker, and river carpsucker. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 25(2)271-278.

Spiegel, J.R., M.C. Quist, and J.E. Morris. 2011. Trophic ecology and gill raker morphology of seven catostomid species in Iowa. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 27(5):1159-1164

Woodward, R.L. and T.E. Wissing. 1976. Age, growth, and fecundity of the Quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus) and Highfin (C. velifer) Carpsuckers in an Ohio stream. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 105(3):411415.
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US watershed boundaries from USGS - http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/huc.html
Canada watershed boundaries from Ministry on Sustainable Resource Management’s Fisheries Inventory Watershed Atlas - http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/gis/GISdata.html
Mexico fish distributions from Freshwater Fishes of Mexico (Miller and Minckley 2006)
US fish distributions from each state's respective fish agency
Additional information may come from peer-reviewed literature, grey literature and agency reports, and scientific collection permit catch records
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