Tombigbee darter
The Tombigbee darter (Etheostoma lachneri) 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 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] The Tombigbee darter was first formally described in 1994 by Royal Dallas Suttkus and Reeve Maclaren Bailey with the type locality given as Wolf Creek, a tributary to the Little Souwilpa Creek near Alabama State Route 17 in Choctaw County, Alabama.[3]
| Tombigbee darter | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Percidae |
| Genus: | Etheostoma |
| Species: | E. lachneri |
| Binomial name | |
| Etheostoma lachneri Suttkus & R.M. Bailey, 1994 | |
Etymology
The specific name honors the American ichthyologist Ernest A. Lachner (1915-1996).[4]
References
- NatureServe (2013). "Etheostoma lachneri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T202497A2745331. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202497A2745331.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2016). "Etheostoma lachneri" in FishBase. April 2016 version.
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Etheostoma lachneri". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
- Suttkus, R. D.; R. M. Bailey & H. L. Bart, Jr. (1994). "Three new species of Etheostoma, subgenus Ulocentra, from the Gulf coastal plain of southeastern United States". Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany. 29 (2): 97–126.