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Common Name: Alabama hog sucker
Taxonomy: available through 
Identification: Page and Burr (1991); Etnier and Starnes (1993); Metee et al. (1996).
Size: 23 cm.
Native Range: Chattahoochee River and Mobile Bay drainages in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and southeastern Tennessee (Page and Burr 1991).
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Nonindigenous Occurrences: Introduced into Baker Creek, Polk County, in the Ocoee system of the Tennessee drainage in Tennessee (Starnes and Etnier 1986; Page and Burr 1991; Etnier and Starnes 1993).
Means of Introduction: "Inadvertent" (Etnier and Starnes 1993).
Status: Established in Tennessee.
Impact of Introduction: Unknown.
Remarks: None.
Etnier, D. A., and W. C. Starnes. 1993. The fishes of Tennessee. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN.
Mettee, M. F., P. E. O'Neil, and J. M. Pierson. 1996. Fishes of Alabama and the Mobile Basin. Oxmoor House, Inc. Birmingham, AL. 820 pp.
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.
Starnes, W. C. and D. A. Etnier. 1986. Drainage evolution and fish biogeography of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers drainage realm. Pages 325-362 in C. H. Hocutt, and E. O. Wiley, editors. The Zoogeography of North American Freshwater Fishes. John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY.
Other Resources:
FishBase Fact Sheet
Author: Pam Fuller
Revision Date: 4/27/2000 Citation for this information:
Pam Fuller. 2009. Hypentelium etowanum. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=359> Revision Date: 4/27/2000
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