Fishes of the Blackwater River Drainage, Tucker County, West Virginia
| Autor: | Stuart A. Welsh, Thomas E. Oldham, Daniel A. Cincotta, Douglas .P. Wegman, Lara B. Hedrick |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Southeastern Naturalist. 14:297-313 |
| ISSN: | 1938-5412 1528-7092 |
| DOI: | 10.1656/058.014.sp725 |
| Popis: | The Blackwater River, a tributary of the upper Cheat River of the Monongahela River, hosts a modest fish fauna. This relatively low diversity of fish species is partly explained by its drainage history. The Blackwater was once part of the prehistoric, northeasterly flowing St. Lawrence River. During the Pleistocene Epoch, the fauna was significantly affected by glacial advance and by proglacial lakes and their associated overflows. After the last glacial retreat, overflow channels, deposits, and scouring altered drainage courses and connected some of the tributaries of the ancient Teays and Pittsburgh drainages. These major alterations allowed the invasion of fishes from North America's more species-rich southern waters. Here we review fish distributions based on 67 surveys at 34 sites within the Blackwater River drainage, and discuss the origin and status of 37 species. Within the Blackwater River watershed, 30 species (20 native, 10 introduced) have been reported from upstream of Blackwater Fal... |
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