Brown darter
The brown darter (Etheostoma edwini) 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 from the St. Johns River drainage of Florida to the Perdido River drainage of Alabama. It inhabits sandy runs, especially near vegetation, of creeks and small rivers. This species can reach a length of 5.3 cm (2.1 in).[2] The brown darter was first formally described as Villora edwini in 1935 by Carl Leavitt Hubbs and Mott Dwight Cannon with the type locality given as the Santa Fe River at Poe Springs in Florida.[3] The specific name honours the American zoologist Edwin Phillip Creaser (1907–1981) who was the collector of the type and who brought Hubbs's attention to this and other species.[4]
| Brown darter | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Percidae |
| Genus: | Etheostoma |
| Species: | E. edwini |
| Binomial name | |
| Etheostoma edwini (Hubbs & Cannon, 1935) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Villora edwini Hubbs & Cannon, 1935 | |
References
- NatureServe (2013). "Etheostoma edwini". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T202477A2745191. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202477A2745191.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Etheostoma edwini" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Villora edwini". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- Hubbs, C. L.; M. D. Cannon (1935). "The darters of the genera Hololepis and Villora" (PDF). Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. 30: 1–93.