Colter Falls is part of the Great Falls of the Missouri River where the Lewis and Clark Expedition was known to discover a freshwater fish of what order?
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Colter Falls Colter Falls, also Coulter Falls, (4.3m) waterfall, nearly 0.5 mi in width, part of the Great Falls of the Missouri, on the Missouri River in north-central Montana. Downstream of Colter Falls lies Rainbow Falls, and upstream is Black Eagle Falls. The Lewis and Clark Expedition was known to discover Westslope cutthroat trout at the base of the falls. The falls is now flooded in the impoundment behind Rainbow Dam. As Rainbow Dam's reservoir is a run-of-the-river reservoir, it rarely is emptied, so the falls is rarely seen even in extreme drought. The falls was named by Paris Gibson, founder of the city of Great Falls, Montana, while they were not named by Lewis and Clark, who measured it at "6 feet 7 inches".
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Westslope cutthroat trout The westslope cutthroat trout ("Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi"), also known as the black-spotted trout, common cutthroat trout and red-throated trout is a subspecies of the cutthroat trout ("Oncorhynchus clarki") and is a freshwater fish in the salmon family (family Salmonidae) of order Salmoniformes. The cutthroat is the Montana state fish. This subspecies is a "species of concern" in its Montana and British Columbia ranges and is considered "threatened" in its native range in Alberta.
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Fringed darter The fringed darter ("Etheostoma crossopterum") is a species of darter endemic to the eastern United States, where it occurs in the drainage of the Cumberland River, the Duck River system, the Shoal Creek system, and the tributaries of the Reelfoot Lakes of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. It is an inhabitant of small streams and rocky pool and nearby riffles where they prey on insect larvae and nymphs, as well as small crustaceans. This species can reach a length of 10 cm .
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Kentucky darter The Kentucky darter ("Etheostoma rafinesquei") is a fish in the species of darter and is endemic to the eastern United States, where it occurs in the upper Green and Gasper River systems in Kentucky. It inhabits rocky pools and adjacent riffles of creeks and small rivers. This species can reach a length of 6.5 cm .
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Shovelnose sturgeon The shovelnose sturgeon, "Scaphirhynchus platorynchus", is the smallest species of freshwater sturgeon native to the United States of America. It is often called "hackleback", "sand sturgeon", or "switchtail." Switchtail refers to the long filament found on the upper lobe of the caudal fin (often broken off as adults). Shovelnose sturgeon are the most abundant sturgeon, found in the Missouri River and Mississippi River systems, and the only commercially fished sturgeon in the United States of America (Pflieger 1997).
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Loach minnow The loach minnow ("Rhinichthys cobitis") is a species of freshwater fish. It is a member of the carp family (family Cyprinidae) of order Cypriniformes. It occurs in streams and small rivers throughout the Gila River and San Pedro River systems in Arizona, New Mexico, and Sonora; it is now considered extinct in Mexico.
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Kingfisher Kingfishers or Alcedinidae are a family of small to medium-sized, brightly colored birds in the order Coraciiformes. They have a cosmopolitan distribution, with most species found outside the Americas. The family contains 114 species and is divided into three subfamilies: river kingfishers (Alcedininae), tree kingfishers (Halcyoninae), and water kingfishers (Cerylinae). All kingfishers have large heads, long, sharp, pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails. Most species have bright plumage with only small differences between the sexes. Most species are tropical in distribution, and a slight majority are found only in forests. They consume a wide range of prey usually caught by swooping down from a perch. While kingfishers are usually thought to live near rivers and eat fish, many species live away from water and eat small invertebrates. Like other members of their order, they nest in cavities, usually tunnels dug into the natural or artificial banks in the ground. Some kingfishers nest in arboreal termite nests. A few species, principally insular forms, are threatened with extinction. In Britain, the word "kingfisher" normally refers to the common kingfisher.
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Great Falls (Missouri River waterfall) Great Falls (also called Grand Falls or Big Falls) is a major waterfall located on the Missouri River in western Montana in the United States. It is the lowermost and largest of the eponymous Great Falls of the Missouri, at 87 ft high and up to 900 ft wide at peak flow. Although the falls used to flow powerfully year-round, most of the water is now diverted to the 60 megawatt hydroelectric plant of upstream Ryan Dam, reducing it to a trickle in the summer months. Grand Falls was named by William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1805.
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Channel darter The channel darter ("Percina copelandi") is a species of fish in the perch family, Percidae, and the subfamily Etheostomatinae. It is native to North America where it typically occurs in the sandy or gravelly shallows of lakes and in small and medium-sized rivers in riffles over sand, gravel or rock bottoms. It is a small fish ranging from 34 to in length, olive brown with darker speckles and sometimes with a dark spot below the eye and dark blotches along the flank. It feeds mostly on insect larvae and other small invertebrates and breeds in small streams. This species is listed as threatened by the Canadian Species at Risk Act (SARA) but overall it has a wide range and numerous sub-populations and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it as a "least concern species".
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Guadalupe darter The Guadalupe darter ("Percina apristis") is a small freshwater fish located in North America. It is found in the Guadalupe River system in Texas. It prefers fast rocky runs of small to medium sized rivers. The darter is typically 11.0 cm in length.
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Cherokee darter The Cherokee darter ("Etheostoma scotti") is a rare species of fish in the perch family. It is endemic to Georgia in the United States, where it is limited to the Etowah River system. It inhabits creeks with rocky bottoms and little silt, typically occurring just above and below riffles. It is a whitish or yellowish fish with green and black spots on the flanks and eight dark saddle-like bars dorsally. It has a small range and its habitat is being degraded and fragmented, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being endangered.
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Astyanax (fish) Astyanax is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Characidae of the order Characiformes. Some of these fish, like many of their relatives, are kept as aquarium pets and known collectively as tetras. With around 150 described species and new ones being described yearly, this genus is among the largest of the entire order; "Hyphessobrycon" also has more than 145 species and which one is larger at any one time depends on whether more species have been recently described in one or the other. The blind and colorless cave tetra of Mexico is a famous member of the genus, but its taxonomic position is disputed: Some recognize it as part of the Mexican tetra ("A. mexicanus") and this is supported by phylogenetic evidence, but others recognize the cave form as a separate species, "A. jordani".
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Paiute cutthroat trout Paiute cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii seleniris) is one of fourteen subspecies of cutthroat trout. Paiute Cutthroat are native only to Silver King Creek, a headwater tributary of the Carson River in the Sierra Nevada, in California. This subspecies is named after the indigenous Northern Paiute peoples.
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Golden trout The California golden trout, or simply the golden trout ("Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita"), is a subspecies of the rainbow trout native to California. The golden trout is native to Golden Trout Creek (tributary to the Kern River), Volcano Creek (tributary to Golden Trout Creek), and the South Fork Kern River. It is the state fish of California.
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Scale shell The scale shell or scaleshell (Leptodea leptodon) is a species of freshwater mussel in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This aquatic bivalve mollusk has disappeared from much of its historical range. It is endemic to the United States, where it is now present in four or fewer states; it is only found with any regularity in Missouri. It is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.
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Blue shiner The blue shiner ("Cyprinella caerulea") is a species of fish in the carp family. It is native to the southeastern United States, where it is endemic to the Cahaba and Coosa River systems of the Mobile River Basin. This is a federally listed threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of the United States.
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Columbia River redband trout The Columbia River redband trout, the inland redband trout or the interior redband trout ("Oncorhynchus mykiss gairdneri") is one of three redband trout subspecies of the rainbow trout in the Salmonidae family. It is native in the Columbia River and its tributaries in Montana, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. It includes sea-run anadromous forms, which are known as redband steelhead. Also the large Kamloops rainbow trout is included.
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Highland stoneroller The highland stoneroller ("Campostoma spadiceum") is a species of fish in the "Cyprinidae" family. It is endemic to the United States where it occurs in certain drainages of the Red, Ouachita, and lower Arkansas river basins from eastern Oklahoma to central Arkansas.
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Ozark logperch The Ozark logperch ("Percina fulvitaenia") is a small freshwater fish located in North America. It is found in the Meramec River, the southern tributaries of the Missouri River in Missouri and Kansas, and the Arkansas River system in Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. It prefers gravel runs and riffles of small to medium-sized rivers.
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Percina phoxocephala Percina phoxocephala, the slenderhead darter, is a North American species of freshwater fish in the family Percidae. It is found in the central Ohio and Mississippi River basins, to northeastern South Dakota and the Lake Winnebago system in Wisconsin, and as far south as the Red River in eastern Oklahoma and northeast Texas, typically in small to medium size rivers. It is a colorful species, with an average length of 6 to . Males take on a deeper hue during the breeding season. It feeds on insect larvae and other small invertebrates, and spawns between April and June. It is a common fish with a very wide range and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has classified its conservation status as being of "least concern".
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Freshwater hatchetfish The freshwater hatchetfishes are a family, Gasteropelecidae, of ray-finned fish from South and Central America. The common hatchetfish is the most popular member among fish keeping hobbyists. The family includes three genera: "Carnegiella" (four species), "Gasteropelecus" (three species), and "Thoracocharax" (two species).
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Coregonus hoyi Coregonus hoyi (bloater) is a species or form of freshwater whitefish in the family Salmonidae. It is a silvery-coloured herring-like fish, 25.5 cm long. It is found in most of the Great Lakes and in Lake Nipigon, where it inhabits underwater slopes. This fish is not to be confused with the extinct deepwater cisco ("Coregonus johannae"), a large fish that shared a common name with the bloater.