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

  1. NatureServe (2015). "Etheostoma zonifer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 4.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). "Etheostoma zonifer" in FishBase. March 2016 version.
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