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The native range of the flathead catfish includes a broad area west of the Appalachian Mountains encompassing large rivers of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio basins. The range extends as far north as Canada, as far west as Texas, and south to the Gulf of Mexico including northeastern Mexico.
Native to the St. Lawrence, Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, Missouri, and Mississippi river basins. Drainages include the Atlantic and Gulf slope drainages. Flathead catfish: Pylodictus olivaris: Can be found in large bodies of water, large rivers with deep pools or lots of cover like driftwood and timber.
The three types of sturgeon native to Arkansas are uncommon, and two of the species are listed as endangered nationwide. The lake sturgeon is near the southern end of its range in Arkansas, more commonly found in the Upper Midwest . [ 86 ]
This list is an amalgamation of the works Cross & Collins books Handbook of Fishes of Kansas (1967) and Fishes in Kansas (1995) as well as Current Status of Native Fish Species in Kansas (2005) by multiple authors and the Pocket Guide of Kansas Stream Fishes by Jessica Mounts (2017). The following tags note species in each of those categories:
The catfish family includes a dozen species in Ohio waters, and some of them are among our best-known fishes. Their ranks include blue, channel and flathead catfish, and three species of bullhead.
Flathead catfish can pose a significant ecological risk when introduced into new waterbodies, primarily through predation on native species. Invasive flathead catfish found by Georgia Department ...
The maximum length is 160 cm (5.2 ft) in the blue catfish and the flathead catfish. [5] The bullheads, though, are small catfish which at maturity often weigh less than 0.5 kg (1 lb), while the madtoms (genus Noturus ) are in general much smaller.
Blue catfish: Ictalurus furcatus: Rivers and large creeks with fast water over sandy or rocky bottoms Channel catfish: Ictalurus punctatus: Ponds, lakes, moderate-flowing rivers and creeks with sandy or gravel bottoms Mountain madtom: Noturus eleutherus: Large, moderately clear rivers ENDANGERED Stonecat: Noturus flavus: Clear, gravel-bottom ...