Range Description

This species is endemic to the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico river basins of North Carolina . It is known from the Coastal Plain and the eastern edge of the Piedmont Plateau. Within the Neuse River basin this species type locality is the Trent River in Jones County, North Carolina, with a range from Willow Springs, Wake County Southeast to the upper reaches of the Trent River, Jones County to Swift Creek between Pitt and Craven Counties. This species appears to be absent from some of the Coastal Plain and most of the Piedmont Plateau. In the Tar-Pamlico River basin this species occurs in the headwater streams East to western Halifax County and Southeast to Pitt County (Cooper and Cooper 1995). This species has a distribution of approximately 21865 km².