References Cited for Proposed Rule to Designate Critical Habitat for the Pearl Darter Docket No. FWS-R4-ES-2020-0062

Bart, H. and K. Piller. 1997. Status survey of the Pearl darter ( aurora) in the Pascagoula River system. Final project report. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, . 17 pp.

Bart, H., K. Piller, and N. E. Rios. 2001. of the Pearl darter (Percina aurora) in the Chunky, Chickasawhay and Bowie rivers and Okatoma Creek, Mississippi. Final Project report to the U. S Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Misssissippi. 16 pp.

Bart, H. and R. Suttkus. 1995. Status survey of the Pearl River (Percina sp.). Museum Tech. Rep. No. 35, MS Dept. Wildlife Fisheries and Parks, Jackson, Mississippi. 15 pp.

Campbell, R. 2019. Pearl Darter propagation at Pvt. John Allen NFH. Summary of hatchery activities and trials with pearl darter. 11/26/2019 File Report to Mississippi Field Office, Jackson, MS.

Clark, S.R., W.T. Slack, B.R. Kreiser, J.F. Schaefer, and M.A. Dugo. 2018. Stability, persistence and habitat associations of the pearl darter (Percina aurora) in the Pascagoula River System, southeastern USA. Research 36: 99–109.

Industrial Economics, Incorporated (IEc). 2020. Draft Screening Analysis of the Likely Economic Impacts for the Proposed Rule to Designate Critical Habitat for the Pearl Darter. Memorandum. 23 pp.

Kuehne, R.A. and R.W. Barbour. 1983. The American darters. The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington. 177 pp.

Piller KR, Bart HL Jr, Tipton JA. 2004. Decline of the freckle - belly madtom in the Pearl River based on contemporary and historical surveys. Trans Am Fish Soc 133: 1004−1013.

Ross, ST, MF Cashner, and R Darden. 2000. Conservation of the Pearl Darter, Percina aurora: Survey of the Upper Pascagooula Drainage. Museum Technical Report No. 85. Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks. 28 pp.

Schaefer, J., B. Kreiser, S. Barrett, and S. Clark. 2020. Ecology and population structure of Pearl Darter (Percina aurora) populations in the Pascagoula Drainage, Mississippi. Unpublished report to USFWS. Museum Tech. Rep. No. 209, MS Dept. Wildlife Fisheries and Parks, Jackson, Mississippi. 44pp.

Slack, W.T. and R.J. Heise, M.A. Dugo and J.A. Ewing, III. 2002. Status of the Pearl darter (: Percina aurora) in the Pascagoula River, Mississippi. Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Mississippi. 31pp.

Slack, W.T., M. A. Dugo, B. R. Kreiser, P. Mickle, J. S. Peyton, and R.L. Jones. 2005. A survey of the upper Pascagoula Drainage for the Pearl Darter, Percina aurora Suttkus and Thompson. Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Mississippi. 17 pp.

Suttkus, R. D., B. A. Thompson, and H. L. Bart, Jr. 1994. Two new darters, Percina (Cottogaster), from the southeastern United States, with a review of the subgenus. Occasional Papers Tulane University Museum of Natural History No. 4. 46 pp.

Tipton, J., H. Bart and K.Piller. 2004. Geomorphic disturbance and its impact on darter (Teleostomi: Percidae) distribution and abundance in the Pearl River drainage, Mississippi. Hydrobiologia 527:49-61.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) 2020. Recovery Outline for Pearl Darter (Percina aurora). U.S Fish and Wildlife Service document. 4 pp.

Wagner, M.D., N. Daun, N. Hood, W. Tomlin, and M. Duplessis. 2018. Status survey for frecklebelly madtom (Noturus munitus) in the Pearl River Drainage. Unpublished report to USFWS. Museum Tech. Rep. No. 201, MS Dept. Wildlife Fisheries and Parks, Jackson, Mississippi. 17 pp.

Wagner, M.D., S. Barrett, J. Schaefer, D. A. Schumann. 2019. Assessing the utility of benthic trawls for collecting Percina aurora in the Pascagoula River. Unpublished report to USFWS. Museum Tech. Rep. No. 208, MS Dept. Wildlife Fisheries and Parks, Jackson, Mississippi. 24 pp.