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The highest sources of the Little River are at an elevation of more than 2,000 feet (610 m) in southwestern Le Flore County, Oklahoma in the Ouachita Mountains.It initially flows westward into Pushmataha County, then south into McCurtain County where it turns to flow southeast, past Wright City and through the Little River National Wildlife Refuge and a portion of the Ouachita National Forest ...
This alligator and the American alligator are now considered to be sister taxa, suggesting that the A. mississippiensis lineage has existed in North America for seven to eight million years. [ 1 ] The alligator's full mitochondrial genome was sequenced in the 1990s, and it suggests the animal evolved at a rate similar to mammals and greater ...
McCurtain County is the only documented part of Oklahoma, together with Choctaw County, within the natural range of the American alligator. [ 14 ] The county also contains the McCurtain County Wilderness Area , a 14,087-acre tract created in 1918 and managed by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation , and the Little River National ...
Oklahoma salamander, Eurycea tynerensis; Lesser siren, Siren intermedia; Plains spadefoot toad, Spea bombifrons; ... Common alligator, Alligator mississippiensis [5] [6]
Florida honored the American alligator in 1987, but the Gators have titled the University of Florida's teams since 1911. In that year, a printer made a spur-of-the-moment decision to print an alligator emblem on a shipment of the schools football pennants; the mascot stuck, perhaps because the team captain's nickname was Gator. [108]
An average adult American alligator's weight and length is 360 kg (790 lb) and 4 m (13 ft), but they sometimes grow to 4.4 m (14 ft) long and weigh over 450 kg (990 lb). [11] The largest ever recorded, found in Louisiana, measured 5.84 m (19.2 ft). [12] The Chinese alligator is smaller, rarely exceeding 2.1 m (7 ft) in length.
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There are over 177 species of fish in the US state of Oklahoma, at least 7% of which are not native. [1] Species include: Alabama shad (Alosa alabamae) Alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) American eel (Anguilla rostrata) American gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum) American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) Arkansas darter (Etheostoma cragini)