APPENDIX A. Fish species collected during Long-term Resource Monitoring of the Illinois Waterway, 

 1957-1998. Cotmon names marked by an asterisk indicate species that were collected from 1989 through 

 1998 during federal aid project F-101-R. Common and scientific names are from Robins et al. (1991). 

 Habitat associations are based on behavioral descriptions from Pflieger (1975) and coninuni cat ions with 

 INHS fisheries biologists. 



Fami ly Name 



Common Name 



Scientific Name 



(B 



Habitat Association 

 benthic, blank = pelagic) 



Lepisosteidae 



Hiodontidae 



Angui I lidae 

 Clupeidae 



Longnose gar" 

 shortnose gar 

 spotted gar* 



goldeye* 

 mooneye* 



American eel 



gizzard shad* 

 skipjack herring* 

 threadfin shad* 



bigmouth shiner* 

 bluntnose minnow' 

 bul Ihead minnow* 

 common carp* 

 common carp x 



goldfish* 

 central stonerol 

 conmon shiner 

 creek chub 

 emerald shiner* 

 fathead minnow* 

 ghost shiner 

 golden shiner* 

 goldfish* 

 grass carp* 

 hornyhead chub 

 Mississippi si' 

 pugnose minnow 

 red shiner* 

 redfin shiner 

 ribbon shiner 

 river shiner* 

 sand shiner* 

 spotfin shiner 

 si Iver chub* 

 silverband shiner* 

 si Iver jaw minnow 

 spottail shiner* 

 steelcolor shiner 

 striped shiner 

 suckermouth minnow' 



very minnow 



Luxi lus cornutus 

 Semoti I us 

 Notropis 

 Pimephales promelas 

 Notropis buchanani 

 Notemiqonus crvsoleucas 

 Carassius auratus 



Nocomis biquttatus 

 Hvboqnathus nuchal is 

 Opsopoeodus emi I iae 

 Cvprinel la lutrensis 



Lvthr 



umbrat i 



Lvthrurus fumeus 

 Notropis blennius 

 Notropis stramineus 

 Cvprinel la spi loptera 

 Macrhvbopsis storeriana 

 Notropis shumardi 

 Notropis buccatus 

 Notropis hudsonius 

 Cvprinel I a whipplei 

 lux'tus chrvsocephalus 

 Phenacobius mirabi I is 



Catostomidae 



bigmouth buffalo* 

 black buffalo* 

 black redhorse 

 golden redhorse* 

 highfin carpsucker* 

 northern hog sucker* 

 qui I Iback* 

 river carpsucker* 

 river redhorse* 

 shorthead redhorse* 

 silver redhorse 

 smallmouth buffalo* 

 white sucker* 



Ictiobus cvprinel lus 

 Ictiobus niqer 

 Moxostoma duquesnei 

 Moxostoma ervthrurum 

 Carpi odes velifer 

 Hvpentelium niqricans 

 Carpi odes gyprinus 

 Carpi odes ggrpiq 

 stoma 



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