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Tennessee-Ohio-Mississippi 



Hiwassee River — The Hiwassee River system rises in the Blue 

 Ridge of northcentral Georgia, and in Clay and Cherokee counties, 

 North Carolina. It flows generally north and west across the southwest 

 corner of the State and into Tennessee, where it merges with the 

 Tennessee River. Two streams of this system head in the southwest 

 corner of Cherokee County and flow south into the Toccoa River in 

 Georgia, part of the Ocoee River system. The Ocoee then joins the 

 Hiwassee in Tennessee. 



Cambarus hiwasseensis and C. parrishi are upper Hiwassee 

 endemics, occurring in both Georgia and North Carolina. The type 

 locality of C. hiwasseensis is a tributary to Peachtree Creek, 0.8 mi 

 (1.3 km) north of Peachtree School on US 64A, Cherokee County, 

 North Carolina (Hobbs 1981:260-261). Other species that occur in 

 the Hiwassee system in North Carolina but have broader ranges are C. 

 b. bartonii, C. nodosus, and C. acanthura. The latter two species 

 are known in North Carolina only from the Hiwassee. Hobbs (1981: 

 20, 22) reported C. latimanus in this system in Georgia, and said 

 (Hobbs 1981:263) that it was found with C. hiwasseensis and O. 

 erichsonianus at a locality on the Nottely River in North Carolina. In 

 addition, his range map for C. latimanus (Hobbs 1981:115) showed 

 Georgia localities west of Nottely Lake in Union County, and in 

 Fannin County just west of the North Carolina state line. Further- 

 more, Bouchard (1972:36) recorded the species "downstream in the 

 Ocoee (Tennessee) River drainage to the Little Frog Mountains in 

 Polk County, Tennessee." This area is in the Hiwassee basin just west 

 (downriver) of North Carolina. Thus, C. latimanus, which in 

 North Carolina is a species of the eastern Piedmont Plateau and the 

 Coastal Plain, also may occur in the Hiwassee basin of the Blue 

 Ridge in at least Cherokee County. It did not turn up, however, in 

 our Hiwassee field work, which included the Nottely River. Hobbs 

 and Peters (1977:27) cited a record for Cambarus (Hiaticambarus) 

 longirostris Faxon in the Hiwassee basin in Cherokee County, "Valley 

 River at Andrews . . . (Crawford 1961:244)," and Hobbs (1981:171- 

 172) found this species in the headwaters of the Nottely River in 

 Union County, Georgia, which is a considerable distance upriver from 

 North Carolina. The distribution maps in James (1966:12-13), however, 

 showed no localities for this species within the Hiwassee basin in 

 North Carolina. In July and September 1984, we failed to collect 

 this crayfish at any site within the system, including the Valley 

 River near Andrews. Nevertheless, C. longirostris could occur in the 

 Hiwassee basin in North Carolina. Cambarus carolinus also may occur 



