| Otter Creek | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Tennessee |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Radnor Lake |
| • elevation | 594 ft (181 m) |
| Mouth | |
• location | Little Harpeth River |
| Length | 6.5 mi (10.5 km) |
Otter Creek is a 6.5-mile-long (10.5 km)[1] creek in Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the effluent of Radnor Lake, and flows through Radnor Lake State Natural Area. It is a tributary of the Little Harpeth River, and via the Little Harpeth, Harpeth, Cumberland, and Ohio rivers, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed.
The creek gets its name because it once contained river otters.[citation needed]
Otter Creek is the type locality for the Fishhook Crayfish (faxonius rhoadesi, originally documented as orconectes rhoadesi). The species was described in 1949 by Horton H. Hobbs Jr. from specimens collected and misattributed as orconectes validus in 1897.[2]
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 8, 2011
- ^ Hobbs, H. H. (1949-05-17). "A new crayfish of the genus Orconectes from the Nashville Basin in Tennessee, with notes on the range of Orconectes compressus (Faxon) (Decapoda, Astacidae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Retrieved 2024-09-26.