Tombigbee darter

Tombigbee darter
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Percidae
Genus: Etheostoma
Species: E. lachneri
Binomial name
Etheostoma lachneri
(Suttkus & R.M. Bailey, 1994)

The Tombigbee darter (Etheostoma lachneri) is a species of darter endemic to the eastern United States, where it occurs in the Tombigbee River system in northeastern Mississippi and Alabama. It inhabits sand- and rock-bottomed pools of headwaters, creeks, and small rivers, and small streams with mixed sand-gravel substrate, and creeks with mixed sand, gravel, and hard clay or bedrock substrate.[2]

References

  1. ↑ NatureServe (2015). "Etheostoma lachneri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 4.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). "Etheostoma lachneri" in FishBase. April 2016 version.
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