PROCEEDINGS of the OKLAHOMA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE Volume 98 2018 EDITOR: Mostafa Elshahed Production Editor: Tammy Austin Business Manager: T. David Bass The Official Organ of the OKLAHOMA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE Which was established in 1909 for the purpose of stimulating scientific research; to promote fraternal relationships among those engaged in scientific work in Oklahoma; to diffuse among the citizens of the State a knowledge of the various departments of science; and to investigate and make known the material, educational, and other resources of the State. Affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Publication Date: January 2019 ii POLICIES OF THE PROCEEDINGS The Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science contains papers on topics of interest to scientists. 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Sci. 98: pp i - iv (2018) iii PROCEEDINGS OF THE OKLAHOMA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE Volume 98 CONTENTS REPORTS 37 Anthropogenic Influence on American A. Applied Ecology & Conservation Black Bear Diet in the Western Ozark 1 Miocene Proboscidean Tooth Found Mountains in Eastern Oklahoma in Evaporite Karst Sinkhole near Gate, Joseph P. Connor, Victoria L. Jackson, Oklahomaa Jennifer R. Mittelhauser, and W. Sue Bryce L. Bonnet, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Fairbanks and Kent S. Smith 46 Early Life History Characteristics 6 Macroinvertebrate Community and Contribution of Stocked Juvenile Structure and Physicochemical Alligator Gar in Lake Texoma, Conditions of a Northwestern Oklahoma Oklahoma Spring Richard A. Snow, Michael J. Porta, Ralph David Bass, Bobbie Gaskin, and Kinsey W. Simmons Jr., and Jory B. Bartnicki Tedford 55 Observations of a Vertical Foraging 14 Potential Longnose Darter Behavior of Blue Catfish in Lake Population in the Kiamichi River of Ellsworth, Oklahoma Oklahoma Richard A. Snow, Michael J. Porta, and Colt T. Holley and James M. Long Ryan G. Ryswyk 18 Shoreline Foraging Activity by Gray 59 Additional Information on the Bats (Myotis grisescens) and Northern Natural History and Ecology of Select Long-eared Bats (Myotis septentrionalis) Fauna (Decapoda; Actinopterygii; on Grand Lake, Oklahoma Mammalia) from Oklahoma Keith Martin and Craig R. Zimmermann Henry W. Robison, Chris T. McAllister, Donald G. Cloutman, Charles R. Bursey, 25 Population Characteristics of Gizzard and Trevor K. Turner Shad Introduced into a Small Western Oklahoma Impoundment 66 Species of Ligictaluridus Matthew T. Lyons, Richard A. Snow, and (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae) Michael J. Porta Parasitizing Large Catfishes (Siluriformes: Ictaluridae) from 33 New Ectoparasite (Phthiraptera; Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas Siphonaptera; Diptera) Records from Donald G. Cloutman, Chris T. McAllister, Birds (Strigiformes: Passeriformes) and and Henry W. Robison Mammals (Lagomorpha; Rodentia) in Southeastern Oklahoma 73 Largemouth Bass Population Chris T. McAllister, Lance A. Durden, Kylie Characteristics in a Densely Vegetated N. Brecheisen, and Will K. Reeves Small Impoundment Michael J. Porta, Richard A. Snow, and Clayton P. Porter Proc. Okla. Acad. Sci. 98: pp i - iv (2018) iv 80 Three New True Bug (Hemiptera: 118 Nasal Carriage of Staphylococcus Miridae) Records for Oklahoma aureus and Methicillin Resistant Stephen W. Chordas, III and Chris T. Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in McAllister Students at the University of Central Oklahoma 83 Parasites (Cestoda, Nematoda, Rachael Baalman, Yuhang Shang, Mollusca) of Western Starhead Jonathon Ryan Johnston, Mohamed K. Topminnow, Fundulus blairae Fakhr, and Robert Brennan (Cypriniformes: Fundulidae), from C. Chemistry the Red River Drainage, Southwestern Arkansas 127 Modifying the Redlich-Kwong- Chris T. McAllister, Donald G. Cloutman, Soave Equation of State Stanley E. Trauth, Charles R. Bursey, and James H. McNeill and James E. Bidlack Henry W. Robison 2018 TECHNICAL MEETING 90 Parasites (Cnidaria, Trematoda, ABSTRACTS Cestoda, Nematoda, Crustacea) of Select Fishes (Lepisosteidae, Catostomidae, ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Hiodontidae, Cyprinidae, Ictaluridae) of Lake Texoma, Oklahoma 148 Officers and Section Chairs (2018) Chris T. McAllister, Anindo Choudhury, Donald G. Cloutman, Stanley E. Trauth, 149 Financial Statements (2017) and Henry W. Robison 152 Membership Application Form 101 Endoparasites (Apicomplexa, Monogenoidea, Trematoda, Cestoda, 153 Editorial Policies and Practices Nematoda, Acanthocephala) from Eleven Reptiles (Testudines: Lacertilia: 154 Instructions for Authors Ophidia) of McCurtain County, Oklahoma, Including the First Report of the Endogenous Stages of Eimeria robisoni (Eimeriidae) Chris T. McAllister, Charles R. Bursey, Stanley E. Trauth, and Michael A. Barger B. Microbiology 112 Isolation of Four Mycobacteriophages from Oklahoma Soil and Testing Their Infectivity Against Mycobacterium abscessus Ahmed K. Ali and Hari Kotturi Proc. Okla. Acad. Sci. 98: pp i - iv (2018) 1 Miocene Proboscidean Tooth Found in Evaporite Karst Sinkhole near Gate, Oklahoma Bryce L. Bonnet University of Oklahoma, Department of Biology, Norman, OK 73019 Nicholas J. Czaplewski Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK 73072 Kent S. Smith Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Office of American Indians in Medicine and Science, Tulsa, OK 74107 Abstract: Fragments of a proboscidean tooth were found in Neogene sediments of the Ogallala Formation within an evaporate karst sinkhole formed in Permian redbeds outside Gate, Oklahoma. The pieces were reconstructed and identified by comparison with museum specimens and literature. The tooth was determined to belong to the family Gomphotheriidae, and the species complex Gomphotherium “productum.” The species is known by other records in the Late Miocene of Oklahoma and surrounding areas. Although a number of collapse sinkholes with fillings of Ogallala Formation sediments are known in Oklahoma, very few of them have been found to contain identifiable fossils such as this one. in this region include layers of gypsum and other Introduction and Methods evaporate rocks that are occasionally prone to subsurface dissolution, forming sinkholes and caves of various types (Meyers 1962; Johnson Gomphotheres were elephant-like 1989, 1996; Johnson and Neal 2003; Gutiérrez proboscideans that were globally distributed et al. 2007). These sinkholes are occasionally from the Miocene epoch to