Biology:Alabama darter

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

The Alabama darter (Etheostoma ramseyi) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a darter from the subfamily Etheostomatinae, part of the family Percidae, which also contains the perches, ruffes and pikeperches. It is endemic to the eastern United States, where it occurs mostly below the fall line of the Alabama River drainage. It is also relatively common in headwater tributaries to the Cahaba River above the fall line.[2]

The Tombigbee darter was first formally described in 1994 by Royal Dallas Suttkus and Reeve Maclaren Bailey with the type locality given as Beaver Creek, a tributary of the Alabama River in Wilcox County, Alabama.[3] The specific name honors the American ichthyologist John S. Ramsey.[4]

References

  • Data related to Etheostoma ramseyi at Wikispecies

Wikidata ☰ Q3757427 entry