Greenthroat darter

Greenthroat darter
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Percidae
Genus: Etheostoma
Species: E. lepidum
Binomial name
Etheostoma lepidum
Baird & Girard, 1853

The greenthroat darter (Etheostoma lepidum) is found in found in Colorado, Guadalupe and Nueces River drainages in Texas; and in Pecos River system in New Mexico.[2]

It inhabits gravel an rubble riffles, with a preference for spring-fed and vegetated riffles of headwaters, creeks, and small rivers.

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