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Table 4. Wabash River fishes in Indiana derived from Mississippi Embayment 

 and Low Plateau sources (from Gerking 1945, and Blatchley 1938). 



Polyodon spathula 

 Lepisosteus oculatus 

 Lepisosteus spatula 

 Alosa chrysochloris 

 Hiodon alosoides 

 Clinostomus elongatus 

 Hybopsis aestivalis 

 Hybopsis storeriana 

 Hybognathus hayi 

 Hybognathus nuchalis 

 Notropis buchanani 

 Carpiodes carpio 

 Carpiodes velifer 

 Cycleptus elongatus 

 Moxostoma carinatum 

 Moxostoma macrolepidotum 

 Noturus nocturnus 



Gambusia af finis 

 M or one mississippiensis 

 Centrarchus macropterus 

 Lepomis humilis 

 Ammocrypta clara 

 Etheostoma asprigene 

 Etheostoma chlorosomum 

 Etheostoma gracile 

 Etheostoma histrio 

 Etheostoma squamiceps 

 Etheostoma variatum 

 Percina copelandi 

 Percina evides 

 Percina ouachitae 

 Percina sciera 

 Percina shumardi 



Table 5. Fishes of the Low Plateau derived from lowland and lower Missis- 

 sippi sources (from Etnier, unpublished). 



Notropis buchanani 

 Notropis maculatus x 

 Notropis shumardi 

 Notropis venustus 

 Opsopoedus emiliae 

 Phenacobius mirabilis 2 

 Erimyzon succetta 

 Moxostoma poecilurum 1 

 Noturus phaeus 1 

 Noturus stigmosus 

 Etheostoma asprigene 



'Not in Low Plateau 

 2 Plains origin 

 3 Trans-Mississippian origin 



Etheostoma chlorosomum 

 Etheostoma gracile 

 Etheostoma histrio 

 Etheostoma parvipinne 

 Etheostoma spectabile 3 

 Etheostoma swaini 

 Percina evides 2 

 Percina phoxocephala 

 Percina sciera 

 Percina shumardi 



