Biology:Backwater darter
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Short description: Species of fish
| Backwater darter | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Percidae |
| Genus: | Etheostoma |
| Species: | E. zonifer
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| Binomial name | |
| Etheostoma zonifer (Hubbs & Cannon, 1935)
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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Hololepis zonifer Hubbs & Cannon, 1935 | |
The backwater darter (Etheostoma zonifer) 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 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
- ↑ NatureServe (2013). "Etheostoma zonifer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T202553A18231853. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202553A18231853.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/202553/18231853. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Etheostoma zonifer" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q6427994 entry
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