Backwater darter
| Backwater darter | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Percidae |
| Genus: | Etheostoma |
| Species: | E. zonifer |
| Binomial name | |
| Etheostoma zonifer (Hubbs & Cannon, 1935) | |
The backwater darter (Etheostoma zonifer) is a species of darter endemic to the eastern United States, where it occurs in coastal plain streams in the Mobile Bay drainage in Alabama and Mississippi. It occurs mud-bottomed, often vegetated, pools of sluggish creeks and small rivers. This species can reach a length of 4.4 cm (1.7 in).[2]
References
- ↑ NatureServe (2015). "Etheostoma zonifer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 4.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). "Etheostoma zonifer" in FishBase. March 2016 version.
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