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Common Name: golden redhorse
Taxonomy: available through 
Identification: Becker (1983); Page and Burr (1991); Etnier and Starnes (1993); Jenkins and Burkhead (1994).
Size: 78 cm.
Native Range: Great Lakes, Hudson Bay (Red River), and Mississippi River basins from New York and southern Ontario to North Dakota, and south to northern Alabama and southern Oklahoma, with an isolated population in southwestern Mississippi; Atlantic Slope from Potomac River, Maryland, to Roanoke River, North Carolina (absent in Rappahannock and York River drainages), and Mobile Bay drainage in Georgia, Alabama, and southeastern Tennessee (Page and Burr 1991).
Nonindigenous Occurrences: Golden redhorse have been introduced into the Potomac River in Maryland and Virginia (Hocutt et al. 1986; Jenkins and Burkhead 1994), Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Maryland (Tilmant 1999), and into the South Branch Potomac drainage and the Gauley system, of the New drainage, West Virginia (Jenkins and Burkhead 1994; Stauffer et al. 1995).
Means of Introduction: Unknown. First appeared in the South Branch Potomac, West Virginia, in two tributaries in 1953. Not collected again until 1971. The first record from the Gauley system was in 1976 (Jenkins and Burkhead 1994).
Status: Established in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Impact of Introduction: Unknown.
Remarks: None.
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.
Hocutt, C. H., R. E. Jenkins, and J.R. Stauffer, Jr. 1986. Zoogeography of the fishes of the central Appalachians and central Atlantic Coastal Plain. Pages 161--212 in C. H. Hocutt, and E. O. Wiley, editors. The Zoogeography of North American Freshwater Fishes. John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY.
Jenkins, R. E., and N. M. Burkhead. 1994. Freshwater fishes of Virginia. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.
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.
Stauffer, J. R., Jr., J. M. Boltz, and L. R. White. 1993. The fishes of West Virginia. West Virginia Department of Natural Resources. Unpublished manuscript. 1114 pp.
Tilmant, J. T. 1999. Management of nonindigenous aquatic fish in the U.S. National Park System. National Park Service. 50 pp.
Other Resources:
FishBase Fact Sheet
Author: Pam Fuller
Revision Date: 7/22/2004 Citation for this information:
Pam Fuller. 2009. Moxostoma erythrurum. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=365> Revision Date: 7/22/2004
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