Table 4 



Fish Species Extirpated from the Illinois River 

 and its Bottomland Lakes Between 1908 and 1970* 



Common Name 



American brook lamprey 



Alligator gar 



Cisco 



Ozark minnow 



Pugnose shiner 



Common shiner 



Blackchin shiner 



Blacknose shiner 



Rosyface shiner 



Weed shiner 



Blacknose dace 



Creek chubsucker 



Spotted sucker 



River redhorse 



Black redhorse 



Freckled madtom 



Bantam sunfish 



Iowa darter 



Fantail darter 



Scientific Name 



Lampet ra lamot tei 



Lepisos teus spatula 



Cor egonus ar t ed ii 



Dionda nubila 



No tropis anogenus 



N . cornutus 



N . heterodon 



N . heterolepis 



N . rubellus 



N . texanus 



Rhinichy thys atratulus 



Er imy zon oblongus 



Miny tr ema melanops 



Moxos toma car inatum 



M. duquesnei 



Noturus nocturnus 



Lepomis symmetr icus 

 Etheos toma exile 

 E. flabellare 



* Taken from Starrett, 1972 



