Biology:Chainback darter
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Short description: Species of fish
Chainback darter | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Percidae |
Genus: | Percina |
Species: | P. nevisense
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Binomial name | |
Percina nevisense (Cope, 1870)
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Synonyms[2] | |
Etheostoma nevisense Cope, 1870 |
The chainback darter (Percina nevisense) 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 found in North America where it occurs in the Roanoke-Chowan river drainage in Virginia south to the Neuse River drainage in North Carolina. It prefers gravel runs and riffles of small to medium-sized rivers.[2]
References
- ↑ NatureServe (2013). "Percina nevisense". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T202584A18233246. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202584A18233246.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/202584/18233246. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Percina nevisense" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q5636441 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainback darter.
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