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Ohio River Basin: Includes the Ohio, Monongahela, Little Kanawha, Kanawha, Guyandotte, and Big Sandy Rivers. N: New River Basin: Includes the New and Gauley Rivers. P: Potomac River Basin: Includes the Potomac River. J: James River Basin: Includes the James
The Mallows Bay–Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary lies in an ecotone, a transition zone in the Potomac River where tides fluctuate between 1 and 2 feet (0.3 and 0.6 m) each day, mixing fresh water flowing into the sanctuary from farther up the river with salt water drawn northwards by the tides from the Chesapeake Bay. [25]
The Potomac River in Washington, D.C., with Arlington Memorial Bridge in the foreground and Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia in the background. The Potomac River runs 405 mi (652 km) from Fairfax Stone Historical Monument State Park in West Virginia on the Allegheny Plateau to Point Lookout, Maryland, and drains 14,679 sq mi (38,020 km 2). The ...
The habitat of the sucker extends from Northern Virginia to Eastern West Virginia. It is generally found in the James River and its discharges, although populations also exist in the Potomac River and its discharges. [1] The fish is generally found in creeks and small rivers.
The Chesapeake logperch (Percina bimaculata) is a small species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a darter from the subfamily Etheostomatinae, part of the family Percidae, which also contains the perches, ruffes and pikeperches.
The air-breathing northern snakehead (Channa argus), a species of fish native to East Asia, has recently been reported [4] [5] in the lower Potomac River.Although no snakeheads have been detected in West Virginia, this invasive species from northern China had been declared a threat to the state's aquatic ecosystem.
It lives in James River drainage area in Virginia, as well as the Potomac River drainage system in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The sculpin lives in small to medium-sized streams, and is relatively tolerant of warm water temperatures. The stream conditioned favored by this species varies depending on sex.
The lifespan of the species is 3 to 4 years. [2] This species produces vocalizations that aid in species and sex recognition. [2] The specific epithet is derived from a name for Theodore Roosevelt Island (Analostan Island), as the type specimens were collected from Rock Creek, which enters the Potomac River opposite the river island. [4]: 58–59