Range Description

This species, in its three subspecies is a very wide ranging species, found in the Pearl and Pascagoula Rivers and Lake Pontchartrain in Mississippi and Louisiana (Hobbs 1974, Fetzner 2008), the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Louisiana (Metcalf and Distler 1963, Hobbs 1974, Pflieger 1996, Fetzner 2008) and the Lower Mississippi Valley in western Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi and in eastern Missouri and Arkansas (Hobbs 1974, Burr and Hobbs 1984, Fetzner 2008).

The Extent of Occurrence (EOO) of this species has been estimated to exceed 450,000 km²