Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties, Kansas
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- Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties, Kansas
- ARTIE L. METCALF
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF STREAMS
- CLIMATE
- Table 1.—Cubic Feet Per Second of Water Discharged at Gauging Stations in Chautauqua, Elk, Montgomery, and Cowley Counties for Years Prior to 1951.
- Table 2.—Monthly Means of Daily Discharge in Cubic Feet per Second for Big Caney River at Elgin, Kansas
- PRESENT FLORA
- HISTORY
- Table 3.—Sewage Disposal Facilities in Some South-central Kansas Communities.
- CONSERVATION
- PREVIOUS ICHTHYOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
- Table 4.—Collections Made by Dr. Frank B. Cross of the State Biological Survey in 1955.
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- MATERIALS AND METHODS
- COLLECTING STATIONS
- ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIES
- FISHES OF DOUBTFUL OR POSSIBLE OCCURRENCE
- FAUNAL COMPARISONS OF DIFFERENT STREAMS
- Table 5.—Species of Fishes Collected and Number of Stations in Each Stream System at Which Each Species Was Found.
- DISTRIBUTIONAL VARIATIONS WITHIN THE SAME STREAM
- Table 6.—Relative Abundance in Per Cent of Fishes in Collections From Three Stream Segments.
- Big Caney River
- Grouse Creek
- FAUNAS OF INTERMITTENT STREAMS
- Table 7.—Percentages of Fishes Taken on Crab Creek.
- Table 8.—Fish Taken in Nine Pools on Upper Beaver Creek (Progressing From Downstream to Upstream).
- Table 9.—Fishes Taken in a Tributary of Grouse Creek.
- EAST-WEST DISTRIBUTION
- Table 10.—Present Westernmost Records of Some Fishes in the Arkansas River Basin in Kansas.
- SUMMARY
- Arkansas River Fauna
- Lower Walnut River Fauna
- Caney-Elk-Grouse Main Stream Fauna
- Upland Tributary Fauna
- LITERATURE CITED
- 27-7079
- UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
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