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Moxostoma duquesnei

(Lesueur, 1817)

Black Redhorse

G5Secure Found in 3 roadless areas NatureServe Explorer →
G5SecureGlobal Rank
Least concernIUCN
Identity
Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.100378
Element CodeAFCJC10070
Record TypeSPECIES
ClassificationSpecies
Classification StatusStandard
Name CategoryVertebrate Animal
IUCNLeast concern
Endemicoccurs (regularly, as a native taxon) in multiple nations
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCraniata
ClassActinopterygii
OrderCypriniformes
FamilyCatostomidae
GenusMoxostoma
Other Common Names
Chevalier noir (FR)
Concept Reference
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. 183 pp.
Taxonomic Comments
Mobile Bay drainage population is racially distinct from all other populations (see Lee et al. 1980).

Harris and Mayden (2001) used molecular data to examine phylogenetic relationships of major clades of Catostomidae. In all trees, Scartomyzon was paraphyletic and embedded in Moxostoma, and Catostomus was never recovered as monophyletic (Xyrauchen was embedded within Catostomus). They concluded that the phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic composition of taxa presently included in Moxostoma and Scartomyzon are in need of further study, as are the relationships and composition of the genera Catostomus, Chasmistes, Deltistes, and Xyrauchen, and the phylogenetic affinites of Erimyzon and Minytrema.

See also Smith (1992) for a study of the phylogeny and biogeography of the Catostomidae.
Conservation Status
Rank MethodExpertise without calculation
Review Date2015-05-19
Change Date1996-09-19
Range Extent Comments
Upper and middle Mobile drainage, Alabama, Georgia, and southeastern Tennessee (absent from Tombigbee River system); uplands and outliers of southern Ohio River basin and Ozarks, west to eastern Oklahoma, south to northern Alabama and northern Georgia, east to western Virginia, western North Carolina; northern Ohio River basin and north into middle part of upper Mississippi River basin to southeastern Minnesota, southern Wisconsin (Fago and Hauber 1993), Pennsylvania, and West Virginia; southern Great Lakes basin, north to western New York, southern Ontario, Michigan, and southern Wisconsin. Avoids lowlands of central Mississippi River basin. See Parker (1989) for information on status in Canada.
Occurrences Comments
This species is represented by a large number of subpopulations and locations.
Threat Impact Comments
Localized threats may exist, but on a range-wide scale no major threats are known.
Ecology & Habitat

Habitat

Typical of gravelly to rocky, occasionally sandy and silty, creeks and small to medium rivers; prefers pools. Rarely in impoundments. Spawns in gravel and fine rubble runs and riffles in water about 0.2-0.6 m deep (Lee et al. 1980, Becker 1983).

Reproduction

Spawns in spring. Sexually mature at age II-VI (Becker 1983).
Other Nations (2)
CanadaN2
ProvinceRankNative
OntarioS2Yes
United StatesN5
ProvinceRankNative
KentuckyS4Yes
VirginiaS3Yes
New YorkS2Yes
GeorgiaS4Yes
KansasS1Yes
PennsylvaniaS5Yes
North CarolinaS4Yes
MichiganS2Yes
IndianaS4Yes
ArkansasS4Yes
MinnesotaS3Yes
MissouriSNRYes
OklahomaSNRYes
IllinoisS2Yes
West VirginiaS4Yes
MississippiS1Yes
WisconsinS1Yes
OhioS5Yes
TennesseeS5Yes
AlabamaS5Yes
IowaS2Yes
Roadless Areas (3)
Alabama (1)
AreaForestAcres
Oakey MountainTalladega National Forest6,129
Arkansas (2)
AreaForestAcres
East ForkOzark-St. Francis National Forest13,037
PenhookOzark-St. Francis National Forest6,566
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