In addition to fish, several species of turtles (such as snapping, musk, mud, map, cooter, painted and softshell turtles), American alligator, aquatic amphibians (such as hellbender, mudpuppy, three-toed amphiuma and lesser siren), and cambarid crayfish (such as the red swamp crayfish) are native to the Mississippi basin.
Other fauna
Mississippi River
Mississippi River | Other fauna
several species of turtles, American alligator and aquatic amphibians. Paddlefish, sturgeon, gar, bowfin are few of the fish species found here. Fish, turtles, American alligator, aquatic amphibians and cambard crayfish. Paddlefish, sturgeon, gar and bowfin.
when was the last time a hurricane hit tampa bay area
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1921
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which areas did it effected?
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Cuba, Pasco County, Manatee County and Sarasota County.
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who ruled the first place?
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Communist Party of Cuba
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which ethnic groups immigrated here?
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Afro-Cubans
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what is one of the principles of its communist party?
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It entails democratic and open discussion of policy issues within the party, followed by the requirement of total unity in upholding the agreed policies.
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when was it founded?
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3 October 1965
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what arrangements were made before the 1921 hurricane?
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Storm warnings were issued eastward from mouth of the Mississippi River and along the east coast of Florida.
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which states surround borders the river you just mentioned?
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States of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky.
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what is the significance of its name?
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The word Mississippi itself comes from , the French rendering of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or Algonquin) name for the river.
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which species can be found here?
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In addition to fish, several species of turtles (such as snapping, musk, mud, map, cooter, painted and softshell turtles), American alligator, aquatic amphibians (such as hellbender, mudpuppy, three-toed amphiuma and lesser siren), and cambarid crayfish (such as the red swamp crayfish) are native to the Mississippi basin.
Mississippi River | Other fauna
The historical range of this species stretched along 850 kilometers (about 520 miles) of the Mississippi River from Prescott, Wisconsin, to Louisiana, Missouri, as well as nine tributaries of the Mississippi. Today it can be found in the Mississippi from La Crosse, Wisconsin, to Muscatine, Iowa, and two tributaries, the St. Croix and Wisconsin Rivers. It has always been rare, but it experienced a large reduction in population after 1965, when it began to lose the northernmost and southernmost reaches of its distribution, a total of over 50% of its range. One cause of the drop in population was pollution.
Lampsilis higginsii | Conservation
Member species are found in the Mississippi, Missouri, and Alabama Rivers.
Scaphirhynchus | Distribution
The specific name, "mississippiensis", comes from the Mississippi River.
Yellow bass | Etymology
This species is endemic to the United States and was thought to be extinct, until its rediscovery in 2011. It occurred in the Mobile River Basin rivers and their tributaries. The type locality is the Black Warrior River, south of Blount Springs, Alabama. Over the past 20 years, extensive surveys that included hundreds of collecting sites in the drainages of the Coosa River, Cahaba River and Black Warrior River (its type locality) had failed to find "Rhodacmea filosa". However, it does still persist in a Choccolocco Creek, a Coosa River tributary. Morphometric and phylogenetic analyses confirm the taxonomic validity of this material.
Wicker ancylid | Distribution
The habitat range is in the eastern United States, west of the Appalachian/Blue Ridge Mountains and from the lower Great Lakes drainage, southwest to Louisiana. River systems included are the Cache (Illinois), Huron, Mississippi and Ohio river basins, Pearl River, Wabash River, and Lake Pontchartrain drainage into the Gulf of Mexico. This species is endangered in Missouri, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Michigan and is federally listed as threatened.
Brindled madtom | Geographic distribution
The Mississippi River and its floodplain are home to a diverse number of species. There are at least 260 different species of fish throughout the Mississippi. Forty percent of the United States' migratory waterfowl use the Mississippi River corridor during the Spring and Fall migration. Sixty percent of all North American birds (326 species) use the river Basin as their migratory flyway. There are 38 documented species of mussel that can be found from Cairo, IL and upstream to Lake Itasca. There may be as many as 60 different species of mussel found on the lower part of the Mississippi.
Mississippi River System | Wildlife
Other populations in the Altamaha, Mississippi and St. Lawrence River basins have not been studied yet with respect to their specific genetic make-up, and so they are simply named as being part of the "Viviparus georgianus" species complex.
Viviparus georgianus | Indigenous distribution
Crayfish are also common throughout the river.
Wabash River | Fauna
Mississippian Genera from North America alone Mississippian Genera from North America and Europe ( L Carb) Mississippian (L Carb) Genera from Europe
Trigonoceratidae | Geographic Distribution
The name refers to the name of the river at which the species was collected, the Marowijne.
Mictopsichia marowijneae | Etymology
The species can be found in the southern part of Mississippi in the tributaries of the Pearl River. "Isoetes mississippiensis" occurs in persistent, sluggish streams in the southern part of Mississippi. Other plants that occupy the same habitat include the graminoids such as rushes and panicgrass. "Isoetes mississippiensis" only occurs in two known locations, neither of which is in a protected area.
Isoetes mississippiensis | Distribution and habitat
This is considered to be a vulnerable species because it has a fragmented distribution and its habitat is degraded in many areas. Increased silt and pollution in river systems reduces the quality of its habitat. The Mississippi River and associated streams and tributaries are heavily channelized and partitioned by locks and dams, eliminating sites where the fish might live.
Western sand darter | Conservation
More than 50 mammal species have made the Upper Mississippi their home, along with at least 145 species of amphibians and reptiles in the Upper Mississippi environs.
Mississippi River System | Wildlife
The Yazoo darter ("Etheostoma raneyi"), a fish endemic to headwater streams of the Tallahatchie and Yocona river systems of north Mississippi, can be found at the field station. The cottonmouth is the most common snake, having been estimated as being fourteen times more common than the next most common snake species. American alligators have rarely been reported, although none of these reports have been verified with photographs or captured individuals.
University of Mississippi Field Station | Ecology
Salween River Basin; freshwater
Mystacoleucus argenteus | Distribution and habitat
The IUCN has listed this species as being of "Least Concern", because it has an extensive range in the Mississippi River system, has a large total population size, and numerous subpopulations. In general, the population trend seems stable and no major threats have been identified.
Etheostoma gracile | Status
There remains the possibility that this species could still exist in sections of the Upper Coosa River Basin that, as of 2008, remain poorly surveyed.
Upland combshell | Introduction
Two bands of historical prairie, the Jackson Prairie and the Black Belt, run northwest to southeast in the middle and northeastern part of the state. Although these areas have been highly degraded by conversion to agriculture, a few areas remain, consisting of grassland with interspersed woodland of eastern redcedar, oaks, hickories, osage-orange, and sugarberry. The rest of the state, primarily north of Interstate 20 not including the prairie regions, consists of mixed pine-hardwood forest, common species being loblolly pine, oaks (e.g., water oak), hickories, sweetgum, and elm. Areas along large rivers are commonly inhabited by bald cypress, water tupelo, water elm, and bitter pecan.
Mississippi | Ecology, flora, and fauna
The Mississippi basin is home to a highly diverse aquatic fauna and has been called the "mother fauna" of North American fresh water.
Mississippi River | Ecology
This species lives the Great Lakes system and Mississippi River system. Its natural habitat is riffles and shoals of rocky rivers, and the shores of lakes with wave activity. This species is declining throughout its range due to habitat destruction, siltation, pollution, and competition with invasive species. Despite this, it remains the most widespread and abundant member of the genus "Epioblasma", of which the other members are now either extinct or severely imperiled.
Epioblasma triquetra | Distribution and ecology
White-winged duck ("Cairina scutulata"), an endangered species of forest duck, is native to the Mu river.
Mu River | Flora and fauna
Fish species include walleye, yellow perch, northern pike, mooneye, burbot, channel catfish brown bullhead, rock bass, white sucker, shorthead redhorse and common carp.
Assiniboine River | Fauna
"N. munitus " is a diminutive catfish with a disjunct distribution across the southeastern United States. It is historically known from the Pearl River drainage and the Upper Tombigbee River drainage in Mississippi and Louisiana, and the Alabama River and Cahaba River drainages in Alabama. However, it has been extirpated from the main channel of the Tombigbee and Alabama Rivers, and is currently limited to the Coastal Plain rivers. The species lives exclusively in medium to large rivers free of sedimentation and over gravel shoals. "N. munitus" has declined rapidly since the mid-1950s when river modification began. The loss of gravel substrates and increased levels of sedimentation due to poor agricultural practices have also affected the species.
Frecklebelly madtom | Distribution
The natural habitat for this species is rivers in riverine forests, predominantly of freshwater in contrast to other species which inhabit ephemeral streams and rivers.
Tomichia cawstoni | Ecology
Numerous introduced species are found in the Mississippi and some of these are invasive. Among the introductions are fish such as Asian carp, including the silver carp that have become infamous for outcompeting native fish and their potentially dangerous jumping behavior. They have spread throughout much of the basin, even approaching (but not yet invading) the Great Lakes. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has designated much of the Mississippi River in the state as infested waters by the exotic species zebra mussels and Eurasian watermilfoil.
Mississippi River | Introduced species
Its natural habitats are rivers and intermittent rivers.
Cobitis maroccana | Habitat
The region also supports a number of invasive mammals, such as nutria and feral hogs, which destroy native ecosystems – including coastal wetlands – and cause trouble for native species.
Mississippi River Delta | Ecology
This species usually found patrolling the banks of the rivers.
Macromia indica | Description and habitat
An interesting fauna is associated with this river, including Green Anaconda, West Indian Manatee and Spectacled Caiman.
Ortoire River | Introduction
It has now been extirpated from all of these states except for Tennessee and Alabama, where it possibly remains in the main flow of the Tennessee River. However, no live individuals have been documented since 1997.
Plethobasus cicatricosus | Introduction
The bowfin, known by many other names such as the mudfish, dogfish, grinnel, grindel, jack, jackfish, cypress trout, cotton fish, and in South Louisiana; choupique (pronounced shoe-pick or shoe-peg), or chew-pic, is found in many areas of Louisiana.
Fauna of Louisiana | Fish
This species is native to eastern North America, where its range includes much of the Mississippi River system. It is found in the drainages of the Ohio, Tennessee, and Cumberland Rivers. The Canadian Species at Risk Act listed it in the List of Wildlife Species at Risk as an endangered species of Canada. In Canada the mussel is limited to Ontario, where it only remains in the Sydenham and Ausable Rivers and Lake Saint Clair. United States populations are more stable than those of Ontario.
Ptychobranchus fasciolaris | Distribution and conservation status
"Graptemys pseudogeographica kohni" is found along the Mississippi River and its tributaries, from Illinois and Missouri southward. Also one reported to be found in South Lyon, MI
Mississippi map turtle | Geographic range
About 375 fish species are known from the Mississippi basin, far exceeding other North Hemisphere river basin exclusively within temperate/subtropical regions, except the Yangtze. Within the Mississippi basin, streams that have their source in the Appalachian and Ozark highlands contain especially many species. Among the fish species in the basin are numerous endemics, as well as relicts such as paddlefish, sturgeon, gar and bowfin. Because of its size and high species diversity, the Mississippi basin is often divided into subregions. The Upper Mississippi River alone is home to about 120 fish species, including walleye, sauger, large mouth bass, small mouth bass, white bass, northern pike, bluegill, crappie, channel catfish, flathead catfish, common shiner, freshwater drum and shovelnose sturgeon.
Mississippi River | Fish
This extinct species was found in Mississippi, USA
Syntomodrillia tantula | Distribution
This species exhibits a disjunct distribution, existing in a northern and southern range in the United States. The northern range extends from eastern Missouri to Maryland, extending north into the southern Great Lakes and south to the Cumberland River Drainage in northern Tennessee. They commonly inhabit the Chesapeake Bay, Ohio River, Mississippi River, and Atlantic Coastal tributaries. The southern range includes areas of Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia. Major habitats in this range include the Apalachicola River and Pearl River drainage.
Silverjaw minnow | Range/distribution
Between about 1990 and 2011, foxsnakes were sometimes divided into two species, with "P. gloydi" as the eastern foxsnake and "P. vulpinus" as the western foxsnake. A 2011 paper by Crother, White, Savage, Eckstut, Graham and Gardner proposed instead that the Mississippi River be established as the species boundary between two species of foxsnakes, and that those found to its east be considered "P. vulpinus" (including those previously known as "P. gloydi") and those found to its west be given the new name "P. ramspotti".
Pantherophis gloydi | Speciation
The state's name is derived from the Mississippi River, which flows along and defines its western boundary. European-American settlers named it after the Ojibwe word "misi-ziibi" ().
Mississippi | Etymology
Native species include the "clarias agboyiensis", a benign type of airbreathing catfish. The Barekese Dam is located on its course.
Ofin River | Fauna
Rare plants include prairie dropseed ("Sporobolus heterolepis"), rosinweed, tall beak rush, and umbrella grass. The wetlands and floodplain forests provide habitat to nearly half of all migratory birds in Indiana and Michigan and are a vital habitat for resident species as well, such as wild turkey ("Meleagris gallopavo"), coyote ("Canis latrans"), fox, beaver ("Castor canadensis"), mink ("Neovison vison"), Indiana bat ("Myotis sodalis"), eastern box turtle ("Terrapene carolina carolina"), and the rare spotted turtle ("Clemmys guttata") and northern redbelly snake ("Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata"), both protected by the State of Michigan. The lower Pigeon River is home to the federally endangered Indiana Bat.
St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan) | Ecology and conservation
Its natural habitats were temperate forests and freshwater springs. Reasons for its extinction are unknown, but likely involved habitat loss. "Plethodon mississippi", however, exists in the area where "P. ainsworthi" is believed to have been collected.
Ainsworth's salamander | Habitat and conservation
Its natural habitat is rivers with a forested canopy. It is not known from any protected area.
Micrixalus adonis | Habitat
The western shore of the lake, including Kinch Bay, Code Bay and King Bay, also supports a diverse wetland which ranges from silver maple swamp to large areas of aquatic plants. Loons, bald eagles, osprey and herons are frequently sighted in these habitats. The ospreys and herons also breed inland from the lake, for example in the nearby Scotch Corners Wetland. The provincially significant Blanding's Turtle is known from the lake; its long-term survival likely depends upon sufficient nesting areas. Eels were once abundant, but hydroelectric dams downstream have all but eliminated this species from the lake and the watershed.
Mississippi Lake | Introduction
Twenty-one Aquatic Snails and Freshwater Mussel species exist in the Choctawhatchee, with one of the former and two of the latter found only in this particular river.
Choctawhatchee River | Flora and fauna
It is known from southern Louisiana and south-western Mississippi. It originally may have been endemic to forested wetlands, but has undergone a population explosion and expansion of its range since 1983.
Archips goyerana | Distribution
It has also declined in the northern part of its range in Wisconsin, due primarily to agricultural runoff or alterations in river flow due to dams. The slender madtom's range has mostly likely decreased due to dam construction, channelization, and agricultural runoff.
Noturus exilis | Distribution
Palaemonetes kadiakensis, the Mississippi grass shrimp, is a species of freshwater shrimp from the Central United States, specifically the Mississippi River Basin
Palaemonetes kadiakensis | Introduction
The species name "nilotica" refers to the fact that it was collected from the river Nile.
Azolla nilotica | Etymology
This species is endemic to the United States and it is known only from its type locality. The type locality is Manitou Cave, Little Wills Valley, Coosa River Basin, Fort Payne, Alabama.
Antrorbis | Distribution
The word Mississippi itself comes from , the French rendering of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or Algonquin) name for the river, (Great River). In the 18th century, the river was the primary western boundary of the young United States, and since the country's expansion westward, the Mississippi River has been widely considered a convenient if approximate dividing line between the Eastern, Southern, and Midwestern United States, and the Western United States. This is exemplified by the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the phrase "Trans-Mississippi" as used in the name of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. It is common to qualify a regionally superlative landmark in relation to it, such as "the highest peak east of the Mississippi" or "the oldest city west of the Mississippi".
Mississippi River | Name and significance
Pleurobema beadleianum, the Mississippi pigtoe, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This species is endemic to the United States.
Pleurobema beadleianum | Introduction
Cornuboniscus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Tournaisian stage of the Mississippian epoch.
Cornuboniscus | Introduction
"Percina sciera" is considered both a wide-ranging and geographically restricted species that inhabits a variety of freshwater habitats including creeks, streams, rivers as well as lakes and reservoirs in the Mississippi River drainage. "P. sciera" is found in the eastern United States in areas ranging from the Tennessee Tombigbee waterway, to the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau section of Southern Ohio, to the second and fourth order streams within the Pine Hills of the Mississippi coastal plain. "P. sciera" has also been studied and monitored in lower Tallahala Creek near its confluence with the Leaf River, which is within the Pascagoula River drainage.
Dusky darter | Geographic distribution
"Etheostoma gracile" is found in the Mississippi River basin from central Illinois and northeastern Missouri to Louisiana, also in the Red River drainages to southeastern Kansas and eastern Oklahoma, and the Gulf Slope drainages from the Tombigbee River in Mississippi to the Nueces River in Texas. Suitable habitats include pools of slow-flowing water in small streams, backwaters of larger rivers, turbid water over sand or mud, oxbow lakes, swamps, and among vegetation.
Etheostoma gracile | Distribution and habitat
Plains bison, elk, cougar and red wolf left the region after European settlement. Present day fauna include white tail deer, wild turkey, squirrel, rabbit, Virginia opossum, gray fox, coyote, skunk, raccoon, gopher, long-tailed weasel, mink, rat, chipmunk, frog, and nine-banded armadillo. Some migratory birds following the Mississippi Flyway spend part of the year in the vicinity.
Hot Springs National Park | Flora and fauna
Mammals that inhabit this refuge include raccoon, moose, black bear, coyote, skunk, beaver, red fox, river otter, bobcat, porcupine, muskrat, and mink.
Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge | Fauna
The species name refers to the shape of the dorsal blotch of the forewing.
Omiostola delta | Etymology
The habitat is wetlands, marshes. Adults are found in July
Oxycera morrisii | Biology
Some of the fishes caught in its waters are "Labeobarbus aeneus", "Barbus pallidus", "Barbus anoplus", "Myxus capensis", "Anguilla marmorata" and "Anguilla mossambica". "Labeobarbus aeneus" is an invasive species, now widely present in the river system.
Mbhashe River | Ecology
Common and scientific names are also those of the "Check-list", except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them. Unless otherwise noted, all species listed below are considered to occur regularly in Mississippi as permanent residents, summer or winter visitors, or migrants. The following tags have been used to annotate some species:
List of birds of Mississippi | Introduction
On the upper reaches near the Minnesota-Wisconsin border, the river's floodplain is between 1.5 and 5 kilometers (between 1 and 3 mi) wide. South of St. Louis, Missouri, the alluvial floodplain is approximately 80 kilometers (50 mi) wide. Major tributaries to the Upper Mississippi River include the Missouri, Illinois, Minnesota, St. Croix, Chippewa, Black, Wisconsin, and Kaskaskia Rivers. The Upper Mississippi provides habitat for more than 125 fish species and 30 species of freshwater mussels. Three national wildlife refuges along the river cover a total of 465 square kilometers (285,000 ac). The largest of them, the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, is over 420 kilometers (260 mi) long, reaching from the Alma, Wisconsin area down to Rock Island, Illinois.
Upper Mississippi River | Ecology
"E. bridgei" is a species found in marine strata of Missouri.
Entomaspis | "E. bridgei"
This fish is now limited to the Pascagoula River drainage in Louisiana and Mississippi states in the United States. It has apparently been extirpated from the Pearl River. The total range is about 200 square kilometers. This fish can be found in riffles and shallow, fast-moving river water. Higher river flows in the spring help to disperse the juveniles. Its favored habitat is unknown but its habitat requirements are likely similar to those of "P. copelandi". This related species feeds on midges and small crustaceans. Threats to this species include pollution via runoff of fertilizers, pesticides, oil, and other materials.
Percina aurora | Distribution and habitat
The genus Axarus is widely distributed with records from the Holarctic, the Neotropics and Australasia . There are currently 5 described nearctic species . Erected as a subgenus ("Anceus") of "Xenochironomus" , "Axarus" was subsequently renamed and elevated to generic status . The Connecticut River in the eastern United States harbors locally dense populations of two "Axarus" species, both currently undescribed. These populations are interesting in that they are restricted to specific larval habitat (varve clay and sometimes rotting wood) and thus there is genetic structure between populations in the river . The Connecticut River species are also notable in that they have extremely well developed polytene chromosomes and also maintain a high degree of inversion polymorphism .
Axarus | Introduction
The species name refers to the name of the village La Carolina near the Reserve Golondrinas, the type location of the species.
Orthocomotis carolina | Etymology
Its distribution is limited to the Pascagoula River of Mississippi and most of its tributaries (a range it shares with the Pascagoula map turtle).
Yellow-blotched map turtle | Geographic range
"Sistrurus miliarius streckeri" is found in the United States in Mississippi (except for southeast of the Pearl River Valley), west through Louisiana into eastern Texas, and north into southeastern and central Oklahoma, Arkansas, southern Missouri, and southwestern Tennessee. The type locality listed is "... near Imboden, Lawrence County, Arkansas" (USA).
Sistrurus miliarius streckeri | Geographic range
Currently, the two known populations of "Rana sevosa" are separated by only .
Mississippi gopher frog | Geographic range
There are six species in the genus "Fessisentis". "F. acutulus" has been found parasitizing the from the Eastern newt, ("Notophthalmus viridescens"). "F. acutulus" has been rarely collected since its original description. It has been found in North Carolina salamanders "Ambystoma opacum", "Desmognathus fuscus", "Plethodon glutinosus", and "Notophthalmus viridescens" by Rankin in 1938, from the Northern slimy salamander ("Plethodon glutinosus") in Louisiana by Nickol in 1969 and from the Hellbender ("Cryptobranchus alleganiensis") in Missouri by Dyer and Brandon in 1973. "F. fessus" has been found infecting the Lesser siren ("Siren intermedia") from Union County, Illinois and the Freshwater drum ("Aplodinotus grunniens") in Money, Mississippi and Manchac, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana.
Fessisentis | Species
It is widespread in North America, found in the drainages of both the Mississippi River from New York to Minnesota, the Great Lakes, and Hudson Bay. It lives in lakes, rivers, streams and quiet waters, usually on sandy-mud bottoms.
Lampsilis siliquoidea | Distribution and habitat
It covers of marshland, with several dozen of deciduous species and 176 species of birds and mammals. The colonies of magnificent bryozoans were found in the river.
Timiș (river) | Characteristics
The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is a , National Wildlife Refuge located in and along the Upper Mississippi River. It runs from Wabasha, Minnesota in the north to Rock Island, Illinois in the south. In its northern portion, it is in the Driftless Area, a region of North America that remained free from ice during the last ice age. Certain parcels contained within the refuge were later transferred to the Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is an important element of the Mississippi Flyway. It has many wooded islands, sloughs, and hardwood forests. The wildlife found here include the canvasback duck, tundra swan, white-tailed deer, and muskrat.
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge | Introduction
"P. ramspotti" is found is found in the upper Midwestern United States, west of the Mississippi river. The range of the closely related "Pantherophis vulpinus" is east of the Mississippi river. The two species do not overlap and there is no intergrade zone.
Pantherophis ramspotti | Geographic range
This species occurs in the US, in these States: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.
Succinea forsheyi | Distribution
Listed alphabetically within groups: Species group "pasibula": Species group "aureola":
Memphis (butterfly) | Species
"Avitelmessus" was originally described by Rathbun based on the holotype from the Peedee Formation of North Carolina, as well as specimens from the Ripley Formation of Mississippi. Later, she would also describe specimens from western Tennessee. "Avitelmessus" is also present on the Atlantic coastal plain and in the Mississippi Embayment. The "near restriction" of "Avitelmessus" to the Mississippi embayment (and that of other Dakoticancridae members to other specific areas) suggest "provincialism" among the family.
Avitelmessus | Fossil sites
Mammals most commonly found in the park are white-tailed deer, groundhogs, minks, foxes, squirrels, and eastern chipmunks. Monson Lake State Park is located on a major corridor of the Mississippi Flyway and attracts a variety of birds. Regionally threatened or uncommon species include Henslow's sparrows, American white pelicans, Forster's terns, Franklin's gulls, horned grebes, and trumpeter swans.
Monson Lake State Park | Fauna
The forest was at one time host to forest interior species such as the ivory-billed woodpecker and the Mississippi is still an important migration route for many birds, including large numbers of wintering mallard ducks, wood ducks and hooded mergansers. Other birds of the area include many songbirds, bald eagles, herons and egrets.
Mississippi lowland forests | Fauna
One of the native animals of the river is the Brown Trout.
Wipperfelder Bach | Ecosystem
Prior to 2011 when "P. ramspotti" was proposed as a new species name, it was thought to be the same species as "P. vulpinus", and "P. vulpinus" was sometimes called the western fox snake. A 2011 paper by Crother, White, Savage, Eckstut, Graham, Gardner proposed that the Mississippi River be established as the species boundary between two species of fox snakes, and that those found to its east be considered "P. vulpinus" (including those previously known as "P. gloydi" ) and those found to its west be given the new name "P. ramspotti". This proposed that "P. vulpinus", which had been known as the western fox snake, become known as the eastern fox snake, and the new "P.
Pantherophis ramspotti | Species status
Drydenius is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Tournaisian stage of the Mississippian epoch.
Drydenius | Introduction
Mesolepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Tournaisian stage of the Mississippian epoch.
Mesolepis | Introduction
Commonly cultivated trees include loblolly pine, longleaf pine, cherrybark oak, and cottonwood. There are approximately 3000 species of vascular plants known from Mississippi. As of 2018, a project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation aims to update that checklist of plants with museum (herbarium) vouchers and create an online atlas of each species's distribution. About 420 species of birds are known to inhabit Mississippi.
Mississippi | Ecology, flora, and fauna
Its habitat follows roughly along the Bogue Chitto River. Associated plants include primrose-leafed violet ("Viola primulifolia"), bulrush ("Scirpus divaricatus"), water-willow ("Justicia lanceolata"), yellow-star grass ("Hypoxis leptocarpa"), yellow-eyed grass "Xyris" sp. and sedge ("Carex" sp.), swamp tupelo ("Nyssa sylvatica" var. "biflora"), water tupelo ("Nyssa aquatica"), sweetbay ("Magnolia virginiana"), bald cypress ("Taxodium distichum"), swamp laurel oak ("Quercus obtusa"), red maple ("Acer rubrum"), loblolly ("Pinus taeda"), ti ti ("Cyrilla racemiflora"), fetterbush ("Lyonia lucida"), and winterberry ("Ilex verticillata"). Distinctive characteristics of this species include brown-spotted sporangial walls and megaspores with highly reticulate ridges, producing a spiny effect. The leaves are up to 40 cm long.
Isoetes louisianensis | Introduction
Isoetes mississippiensis, the Mississippi quillwort, is a small aquatic pteridophyte from the family Isoetaceae.
Isoetes mississippiensis | Introduction
The Wabash River supports an abundant and diverse wildlife population. At least 150 species of birds have been sighted around the river. The waterfowl are most dependent on the river. Black-crowned and Yellow-crowned night heron, and merlin inhabit the area. Several species of shorebirds build nest on or near the banks of the river. The river is home to many species of fish including species of bass, sunfish, crappie, catfish, carp, and others. Aquatic reptiles including snakes and turtles also occur in the river. A number of amphibians occur throughout the river's watershed including the American bullfrog and the eastern newt.
Wabash River | Fauna
This is a western Atlantic species, also occurring in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
Conasprella mazei | Distribution
It is believed by some to host one of the last populations of the ivory-billed woodpecker, a bird considered extinct or nearly so. The refuge lies with the Mississippi lowland forests ecoregion. Within the refuge, the Sugarberry Natural Area includes a old-growth bottomland hardwood forest of varied composition. The area contains four forest types: American sweetgum, Nuttall's oak, willow oak; sugarberry, American elm, green ash; American sycamore, pecan, American elm; and baldcypress.
White River National Wildlife Refuge | Description
The collected specimens for this study consisted of two species; "Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus" and "Pterygoplichthys pardalis". Both species were collected from the Marikina River. Only the species "disjunctivus" was collected from Pasig River.
Marikina River | Ecology
Large mammals found in the city include urbanized coyotes and occasionally a stray whitetail deer. eastern gray squirrel, cottontail rabbit, and other rodents are abundant, as well as the nocturnal and rarely seen opossum. Large bird species are abundant in parks and include Canada goose, mallard duck, as well as shorebirds, including the great egret and great blue heron. Gulls are common along the Mississippi River; these species typically follow barge traffic. Winter populations of bald eagles are found by the Mississippi River around the Chain of Rocks Bridge. The city is on the Mississippi Flyway, used by migrating birds, and has a large variety of small bird species, common to the eastern U.S.
Geography of St. Louis | Flora and fauna
In 2013, "M. coosae" was split into five species with "M. coosae" restricted to the Coosa River system. "M. cahabae" of the Cahaba River system, "M. chattahoochae" of the Chattahoochee River system, "M. tallapoosae" of the Tallapoosa River system and "M. warriorensis" of the Black Warrior River system were all recognized as separate species.
Redeye bass | Systematics
In the wild, the species inhabits tropical waters with a temperature range of , a pH of 6.0 – 7.5, and dH range of 4-15. It has been found throughout the Congo River basin. It has also been found in the upper Kasai River systems, the Lufira River system, and the Luapula River system.
Synodontis notatus | Habitat
Fish species found in the river include trout, perch, carp, roach. Also present are water scorpions, snails, caddisfly larvae, fish fry, red-eared sliders, rare snakes, crayfish, leeches and dragonfly. Plants include bamboo species and aquatic equisetopsida.
Fave | Flora and fauna
It flows against the edge of the South Central Plains, receives drainage from it, and has sufficient habitat diversity to be one of the most species-rich streams in North America. Bayou Bartholomew supports over half of all known mussel species found in Louisiana. Within an abandoned course, bald cypress and/or water tupelo typically grow in the modern stream channel adjacent to a strip of wet bottomland hardwood forest dominated by overcup oak and water hickory. The remainder of the native forest has largely been cleared and drained for cropland and pastureland. Corn, cotton, and soybeans are the main crops.
Mississippi Alluvial Plain (ecoregion) | Arkansas/Ouachita River Holocene Meander Belts (73h)
"Mimulus alatus" is a native species to eastern North America; its range stretches from Connecticut, down south to Florida and extends as far west as Nebraska and Texas. It is most commonly found in central and lower Mississippi valley, and considered rare in Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York and Ontario.
Mimulus alatus | Distribution
This species is native to the United States. It is present in the Mississippi interior basin, western and eastern gulf, and the Atlantic Slope drainages. It is a common and widespread species. Thousands of individuals can inhabit a single pond. It is characterized by its unusually thin shell.
Utterbackia imbecillis | Distribution
The species name is an artificial combination of letters.
Elachista louisella | Etymology
Mordellistena mississippiensis is a species of beetle in the genus "Mordellistena" of the family Mordellidae, which is part of the superfamily Tenebrionoidea. It was discovered in 1971.
Mordellistena mississippiensis | Introduction
The researchers concluded that dams and other human-erected barriers, by blocking the larval drift, are likely to be the primary reason that Ohio River shrimp are almost non-existent in the Ohio River.
Macrobrachium ohione | Reproduction