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Common Name: river carpsucker
Taxonomy: available through 
Identification: Becker (1983); Hubbs et al. (1991); Page and Burr (1991); Etnier and Starnes (1993).
Size: 64 cm.
Native Range: Mississippi River basin from Pennsylvania to Montana and south to
Louisiana; Gulf Slope drainage from Calcasieu River, Louisiana, to Rio
Grande, Texas and New Mexico. Also in Mexico (Page and Burr 1991).
Nonindigenous Occurrences: River carpsuckers were introduced into western Lake Erie and the lower Maumee River, Ohio (Lee et al. 1980 et seq.; Trautman 1981; Page and Burr 1991).
Means of Introduction: It is likely that individuals of this species were included in shipments of buffalofishes Ictiobus spp., which were intentionally stocked in Ohio in western Lake Erie between 1920 and 1930 (Lee et al. 1980 et seq.; Trautman 1981).
Status: Established in Ohio.
Impact of Introduction: Unknown.
Remarks: Possibly hybridizes with highfin carpsucker Carpiodes velifer and quillback C. cyprinus (Trautman 1981).
Becker, G. C. 1983. Fishes of Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI.
Etnier, D. A., and W. C. Starnes. 1993. The fishes of Tennessee. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN.
Hubbs, C., R. J. Edwards, and G. P. Garrett. 1991. An annotated checklist of freshwater fishes of Texas, with key to identification of species. Texas Journal of Science, Supplement 43(4):1--56.
Lee, D. S., C. R. Gilbert, C. H. Hocutt, R. E. Jenkins, D. E. McAllister, and J. R. Stauffer, Jr. 1980 et seq. Atlas of North American freshwater fishes. North Carolina State Museum of Natural History, Raleigh, NC.
Page, L. M., and B. M. Burr. 1991. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. The Peterson Field Guide Series, volume 42. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA.
Trautman, M. B. 1981. The fishes of Ohio. Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH.
Other Resources:
FishBase Fact Sheet
Author: Pam Fuller
Revision Date: 11/13/2003 Citation for this information:
Pam Fuller. 2009. Carpiodes carpio. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=341> Revision Date: 11/13/2003
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