Credits, References and Further Reading

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Jeff Grabarkiewicz, Wayne Davis, and Todd Crail

All pollution tolerance ratings taken from:

Barbour, M.T., J. Gerritsen, B.D. Snyder, and J.B. Stribling. 1999. Rapid Bioassessment Protocols for Use in Streams and Wadeable Rivers: Periphyton, Benthic Macroinvertebrates and Fish, Second Edition. EPA 841-B-99-002. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Office of Water; Washington, D.C.

Jester, D.B., A.A. Echelle, W.J. Matthews, J. Pigg, C.M. Scott and K.D. Collins. 1992.fishes of Oklahoma, their gross habitats and their tolerance of degredation in water quailty and habitat. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences, Volume 72: 7-19.

Literature Cited:

Boschung , H.T. and R.L. Mayden. 2004. Fishes of Alabama. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 736 p.

Burr, B.M. and R.L. Mayden. 1992. Phylogenetics and North American freshwater fishes. Pages 18-75 in R.L. Mayden, ed.

Burr, B.M. and J.N. Stoeckel. 1999. The natural history of madtoms (genus Noturus), North America's diminutive catfishes. In: E.R. Irwin, W.A. Hubert, C.F. Rabeni, H.L. Schramm, Jr., and

T. Coon (Eds.). Catfish 2000: proceeedings of the internation ictalurid symposium. American Fisheries Society Symposium 24: 51-101

Etnier, D.A. 1997. Jeopardized Southeastern freshwater fishes: a search for causes. Pages 87104 in Benz and Collins, eds.

Etnier, D.A. and W.C. Starnes. 1993. The Fishes of Tennessee. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 689 p.

Karr, J.R., K.D. Fausch, P.L. Angermeier, P.R. Yant, and l.J. Schlosser. 1986. Assessing biological integrity in running waters: A method and its rationale. Special publication 5. Illinois Natural History Survey.

Kuehne, R.A. and R.W. Barbour. 1983. The American Darters. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA). 1987. Biological criteria for the protection of aquatic life: volumes I-III. Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Columbus, Ohio.

Potter, G.E. 1927. Respiratory function of the swim bladder of Lepisosteus. J. Exp. Zool. 49(1): 45-67.

Trautman, M. B. 1981. The Fishes of Ohio. 2nd Ed., Ohio State University Press, Columbus, 782 p.

White, Andrew M., Milton B. Trautman, Eric J. Foell, Michael P. Kelty, and Ronald Gray. 1975.

Water quality baseline for the Cleveland area-Lake Erie. Vol 2. The Fishes of the Cleveland Metropolitan Area including the Lake Erie shoreline. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ,Region 5, Chicago: 181 p., 43 figs., 12 tabs.

References for taxonomical identifiers:

(family and genus):

Boschung , H.T. and R.L. Mayden. 2004. Fishes of Alabama. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 736 p. Etnier, D.A. and W.C. Starnes. 1993. The Fishes of Tennessee. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 689 p.

Trautman, M. B. 1981. The Fishes of Ohio. 2nd Ed., Ohio State University Press, Columbus, 782 p.