Longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis) distribution and status by HUC8

Jul 27, 2011 (Last modified Jun 16, 2020)
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Dupuis, H.M.C. and M.H.A. Keenleyside. 1988. Reproductive success of nesting male longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis peltastes). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 23109-116.

Jennings, M.J. and D.P. Philipp. 1992. Reproductive investment and somatic growth rates in longear sunfish. Environmental Biology of Fishes 35:257-271.

Jennings, M.J. and D.P. Philipp. 1992. Genetic variation in the longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis). Canadian Journal of Zoology 70(9):1673-1680.

Keenleyside, M.H.A. 1972. Intraspecific intrusions into nests of spawning longear sunfish (Pisces: Centrarchidae). Copeia 1972(2):272-278.

Laughlin, D.R. and E.E. Werner. 1980. Resource partitioning in two coexisting sunfish: Pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus) and Northern Longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis peltastes). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 37(9):1411-1420.
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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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Western Division of the American Fisheries Society (WDAFS), http://www.wdafs.org/officers/officers.htm
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