Iowa Fish Atlas

                                                 

Native: Yes

State Rank: SX 

ITIS Code: 163445          

National Rank: N5           

Global Rank: G5

Modeled By: Anna Loan-Wilsey

                       

State Range:

Not found in any Iowa rivers since 1894, the last collection of the blackchin shiner in Iowa was from West Okoboji Lake in 1932.  This species is now considered extirpated from the state because of a radically changed habitat (Harlan and Speaker 1969).  The blackchin shiner was found in scattered locations across the state with its continental range centering around the Great Lakes region, extending east to New York and westward into Minnesota (Harlan et al. 1987).

Habitat Affinities:

Blackchin shiners prefer clear, well-vegetated water over a bottom of sand, gravel, or organic detritus, disappearing almost immediately when waters became turbid, the bottoms silt-covered bottom (Harlan et al. 1987; Trautman 1981).  Having a northern range, the blackshin shiner is characteristic of the glacial lake district inhabiting shallow areas of glacial lakes, potholes and streams which are usually lake outlets or inlets (Becker 1983, Phillips et al. 1982, Smith 1979).

Predictive Model(s):

Statewide Model: by 8-digit HU [Decision Tree Analysis n=8]

The distribution is based upon existing collection records.

("TEMP_CODE" = 2 AND (("GRADRCHR" > 1 AND "GRADRCHR" <= 2) AND ("LINKR" > 4 AND "LINKR" <= 6)))

Overall Prediction:

("TEMP_CODE" = 2 AND (("GRADRCHR" > 1 AND "GRADRCHR" <= 2) AND ("LINKR" > 4 AND "LINKR" <= 6)))

Literature Cited:

Becker, G.C.  1983.  Fishes of Wisconsin.  University of Wisconsin Press, Madison. 1052 pp.

Harlan, J.R., and E.B. Speaker. 1969.  Iowa fish and fishing. Iowa Conservation Commission, Des Moines, Iowa. 365pp.

Harlan, J.R., E.B. Speaker, and J. Mayhew. 1987.  Iowa fish and fishing. Iowa Conservation Commission, Des Moines, Iowa. 323pp.

Phillips, G.L., W.D. Schmid, and J.C. Underhill.  1982.  Fishes of the Minnesota region.  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota.  248 pp.

Smith, P.W.  1979.  The fishes of Illinois.  University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois.  314 pp.

Trautman, M.B.  1981.  The fishes of Ohio.  Revised Edition.  Ohio State University Press in collaboration with the Ohio Sea Grant Program Center for Lake Erie Area Research,  Columbus, Ohio.  782 pp.

Data Sources:

Meek, S.E.  1892.  Report upon the fishes of Iowa, based upon observations and

collections mad during 1889, 1890, 1891.  Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. 10(1890):217-248.

Meek, S.E.  1894.  Notes on the fishes of Western Iowa and Eastern Nebraska.  Bulletin

of the United States Fish Commission 14(1894):133-138.

Additional References:

Aadland, L.P.,  C.M. Cook, M.T. Negus, H.G. Drewes, and  C.S. Anderson.  1991.  Microhabitat preferences of selected stream fishes and community-oriented approach to instream flow assessments.  Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Section of Fisheries, Minneapolis, Minnesota.  142 pp.

Carlson, D.M.  1997.  Status of the pugnose and blackchin shiners in the St. Lawrence River in New York, 1993-1995.   Journal of Freshwater Ecology 12(1): 131-139.

Eddy, S., and J.C. Underhill.  1974.  Northern fishes; with special reference to the upper Mississippi Valley.  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota.  414 pp.

Lee, D. S., C. R. Gilbert, C. H. Hocutt, R. E. Jenkins, D. E. McAllister, and J. R. Stauffer, Jr.  1980.  Atlas of North American freshwater fishes.  North Carolina State Museum of Natural History, Raleigh, North Carolina.  867 pp.

Lyons, J.  1989.  Changes in the abundance of small littoral-zone fishes in Lake Mendota, Wisconsin.  Canadian Journal of Zoology 67: 2910-2916.

Page, L.M., and B.M. Burr.  1991.  A field guide to freshwater fishes: North America north of Mexico.  Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts. 432 pp.

Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea, and W.B. Scott.  1991.  Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada.  American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 20, Bethesda, Maryland. 183 pp.

Scott, W.B., and E. J. Crossman.  1973.  Freshwater fishes of Canada.  Fisheries Research Board of Canada Bulletin No. 184, Ottawa, Canada.  966 pp.

Smith, C.L.  1985.  The inland fishes of New York state.  New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, New York.  522 pp.

Werner, E.E., D.J. Hall, D.R. Laughlin, D.J. Wagner, L.A. Wilsmann, and F.C. Funk.  1977.  Habitat partitioning in a freshwater fish community.  Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 34(3):360-370.

Whittier, T.R., D.B. Halliwell, and S.G. Paulsen.  1997.  Cyprinid distributions in

Northeast U.S.A. lakes: evidence of regional- scale minnow biodiversity losses.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 54(7): 1593-1607.

Wilsman, L.A.  1979.  Resource partitioning and mechanisms of coexistence of blackchin

and blacknose shiners (Notropis: cyprinidae).  Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan. 

Photo Credits:

Upper Left:       Photo courtesy of Konrad P. Schmidt, copyright Konrad P. Schmidt.

Upper Right:     Photo courtesy of Chicago Wilderness Magazine, http://www.chicagowildernessmag.org