Tombigbee darter

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

The Tombigbee darter (Etheostoma lachneri) is a species of darter 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]

References

  1. NatureServe (2015). "Etheostoma lachneri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 4.1 (4.1). International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). "Etheostoma lachneri" in FishBase. April 2016 version.


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