: Fishes of Chautauqua Cowley and Elk Counties Kansas by Metcalf Artie L - Fishes Kansas Animal; Animals-Wild

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PAGE Introduction 347 Physical characteristics of the streams 351 Climate 351 Present flora 353 History 354 Conservation 357 Previous ichthyological collections 357 Acknowledgments 358 Materials and methods 358 Collecting stations 359 Annotated list of species 362 Fishes of doubtful or possible occurrence 383 Faunal comparisons of different streams 384 Distributional variations within the same stream 387 Faunas of intermittent streams 390 East-west distribution 392 Summary 394 Literature cited 397

INTRODUCTION

Aims of the distributional study here reported on concerning the fishes of a part of the Arkansas River Basin of south-central Kansas were as follows:

Ascertain what species occur in streams of the three counties.

Ascertain habitat preferences for the species found.

Distinguish faunal associations existing in different parts of the same stream.

Describe differences and similarities among the fish faunas of the several streams in the area.

Relate the findings to the over-all picture of east-west distribution of fishes in Kansas.

List any demonstrable effects of intermittency of streams on fish distribution within the area.

Cowley and Chautauqua counties form part of the southern border of Kansas, and Elk County lies directly north of Chautauqua. The following report concerns data only from those three counties unless otherwise noted. They make up an area of 2,430 square miles having a population of 50,960 persons in 1950 . The most populous portion of the area is western Cowley County where Arkansas City with 12,903 inhabitants and Winfield with 10,264 inhabitants are located. Each of the other towns has less than 2,000 inhabitants. In the Flint Hills, which cross the central portion of the area surveyed, population is sparse and chiefly in the valleys.

Topographically, the area is divisible into three general sections: the extensive Wellington formation and the floodplain of the Arkansas River in western Cowley County; the Flint Hills in the central part of the area; and the "Chautauqua Hills" in the eastern part. The drainage pattern is shown in Figure 1.

The Wellington formation, which is devoid of sharp relief, borders the floodplain of the Arkansas River through most of its course in Cowley County. A short distance south of Arkansas City, however, the Arkansas is joined by the Walnut River and enters a narrow valley walled by steep, wooded slopes. Frye and Leonard suggest that this valley was originally carved by the Walnut River, when the Arkansas River flowed southward west of its present course. They further suggest that during Nebraskan glacial time the Arkansas probably was diverted to the rapidly downcutting Walnut. The Arkansas River has a gradient of 3.0 ft. per mile in Cowley County. This gradient and others cited were computed, by use of a cartometer, from maps made by the State Geological Survey of Kansas and the United States Geological Survey.

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