Distribution of Fishes 5 -j 



We record it here for the first time from the Ivy River, a tributary to the 

 French Broad River, from upstream of Marshall in Madison County, North Car- 

 olina, where we took three adults (90-99 mm SL) on 14 August 1994 (Fig. 5). 

 One adult (86 mm TL) and one specimen (released, not measured) were collect- 

 ed in the Little Tennessee River at Needmore in Swain County, North Carolina, 

 by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) personnel on 20 June 1994 (E. Scott, per- 

 sonal communication, 1994) (Fig. 1). This site had been sampled five times by 

 TVA biologists during the period 1988-1993 and once by us in 1993. The dis- 

 covery of the species there in 1994 was unexpected. Preferred habitat was grav- 

 el riffles. Current at the Ivy River site was 0.31 m/sec, water temperature 20.6 

 C, pH 8.0, and dissolved oxygen concentration 8.0 ppm. Its status of endangered 

 in North Carolina is warranted. 



Blotchside logperch, Percina burtoni Fowler 



The blotchside logperch occurs in disjunct populations in the Ten- 

 nessee River drainage from westcentral Tennessee to southwestern Virginia 

 (Page and Burr 1991); where it occurs it is localized and rare (Etnier 1994). In 

 North Carolina it was taken at one site in Cane Creek (Henderson County) in 

 1902, at one site in the Swannanoa River (Buncombe County) in 1934, and at 

 two sites in the South Toe River (Yancey County) in 1975 and 1977 (Menhinick 

 1986) (Fig. 5). We collected two adults (120 mm SL, one released) at a new 

 locality in the South Toe River near its confluence with the North Toe River in 

 September 1993. Since we noted that this fish can readily avoid electroshockers 

 and seines, we observed 2 to 6 adults in each of 4 visits by snorkeling at the two 

 upstream historic sites in the South Toe River in July and September 1993 and 

 August 1995 (Fig. 5). Preferred habitat was in pools below riffles. Menhinick 

 (1986) presumed P. burtoni to have been extirpated from the Swannanoa River 

 and from Cane Creek since he did not obtain it there in 14 collections nor did the 

 North Carolina Division of Environmental Management in 5 collecions (V 

 Schneider, personal communication, 1994). We did not collect it in either stream 

 in two collections made there in 1993, and we concur with Menhinick (1986). Its 

 continued presence in North Carolina is tenuous. 

 Dusky darter, Percina sciera (Swain) 



The dusky darter occurs from the Wabash River drainage in Indiana 

 south and west to the Guadalupe River drainage in Texas and east to the Tombig- 

 bee-Black Warrior river system in Alabama (Page 1980). In North Carolina it is 

 known only from Spring Creek, Madison County, where U.S. Forest Service per- 

 sonnel collected one specimen in 1966 and one in 1969 (Auburn University Col- 

 lection 3442), although the specific sites are now not known (M. Seehorn, per- 

 sonal communication, 1994). We made 13 collections at 7 sites with suitable 

 habitat in Spring Creek over a distance of 27.3 rkm in 1994 and 1995. We did 

 not collect it. Apparently never widespread or common in North Carolina, we 



