Present and Historic Distribution of Fishes in South Fork Wildcat Creek, Tippecanoe, Clinton and Tipton Counties, Indiana

摘要: The fish fauna of the South Fork Wildcat Creek watershed, Tippecanoe, Clinton, and Tipton counties, was studied at 88 sites to evaluate species diversity historical present distri- bution assemblages. In 2004, we used a targeted watershed survey design (/? = 80) spatially increase extrapolated data coverage produced by random probability sampling Wabash River drainage. Few historic collections have been made in with only three collected prior 1950, seven from Tippecanoe County 1994, an additional 1 monitoring activities between 1995 2003. all, 73 21 recorded all events. Dominant include Semotilus atromaculatus, Campostoma anomalum, Pimephales notatus. Etheostoma camurum Luxilus cornutus not since 1945 surveys. However, absence is likely result taxonomic changes that resulted chrysoce- phalus being recognized as separate species. Six (Ichthyomyzon unicuspis, Lepisosteus osseus. Notropis volucellus, wickliffi, Pylodictis olivaris, Lepomis microlophus) col- lected 1994. 12 {Campostoma oligolepis, Nocomis biguttatus, Xote- migonus crysoleucus, Phoxinus erythrogaster, Carpiodes velifer, carpio, Ictalurus punctatus, Noturus gyrinus, Gambusia affinis, gulosus, Poxomis nigromaculatus, Aplodinotus grunniens) were first verified records for watershed.