Missouri saddled darter

Missouri saddled darter
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Percidae
Genus: Etheostoma
Species: E. tetrazonum
Binomial name
Etheostoma tetrazonum
(Hubbs & J.D. Black, 1940)

The Missouri saddled darter (Etheostoma tetrazonum) is a species of darter endemic to the eastern United States, where it occurs in the Missouri Ozarks from the Meramec River to the Osage and Moreau rivers. It occurs in fast gravel and rubble riffles of small to medium rivers. This species can reach a length of 9.0 cm (3.5 in).[2]

References

  1. NatureServe (2015). "Etheostoma tetrazonum". 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 tetrazonum" in FishBase. March 2016 version.
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