. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. Fig. 82.—Lateral view of Macrobrachium ohione (after Holthuis 1952). longer second legs (Holthuis 1952). Females reach about 100 mm in length, males about 70 mm (Hedgpeth 1949; Truesdale & Mermilliod 1979). Distribution and Habitat.—M. ohione occupies freshwater habitats along the Atlantic coast from Virginia to Florida, along the Gulf Coast from Alabama to Texas, and north in the Mississippi and Ohio river systems to Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana,. Fig. 83.—Total distribution of Macrobrach- ium ohione. and Ohio (Fig. 83). Coastal popul
. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. Fig. 82.—Lateral view of Macrobrachium ohione (after Holthuis 1952). longer second legs (Holthuis 1952). Females reach about 100 mm in length, males about 70 mm (Hedgpeth 1949; Truesdale & Mermilliod 1979). Distribution and Habitat.—M. ohione occupies freshwater habitats along the Atlantic coast from Virginia to Florida, along the Gulf Coast from Alabama to Texas, and north in the Mississippi and Ohio river systems to Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana,. Fig. 83.—Total distribution of Macrobrach- ium ohione. and Ohio (Fig. 83). Coastal populations inove into estuaries in spring (Gunter 1937; Hedgpeth 1949; Reimei, Strawn, Sc Dixon 1974). In Illinois, M. ohione has been re- corded from Cairo, Alexander County (Forbes 1876); Grand Tower, Jackson County (Forbes 1876); Chester, Ran- dolph County (McCormick 1934); and Shawneetown, Gallatin County (Hedg- peth 1949) (Fig. 84). Although Hedg- peth (1949) and Holthuis (1952) cite Luce (1933) as recording M. ohione from the lower Kaskaskia River. Illi- nois, the reference is actually to its use as fish bait. Forbes (1876) described A/, ohione as "abundant at Cairo, where it is fre- quently eaten" and reported second handedly its presence in the Mississippi River system from St. Louis to New Orleans. It aj^parently was common in the Mississippi River as recently as the 1930's, when McCormick (1934) described the successful use of "shrimp sets" at Chester. Shrimp sets were wil- low or Cottonwood branches set along the river's edge and bent so that their leaves were under water. As shrimj) fed on the leaves they weie dipneited by fishermen. In the lUintjis Natural History Survey collection are six series of M. ohione from Illinois, including one made by S. A. Forbes at Caircj (undated). The five collections with locality Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability -
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