Backwater darter

Short description: Species of fish

Backwater darter

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Perciformes
Family:  | Percidae
Genus:  | Etheostoma
Species:  |

E. zonifer

Binomial name
Etheostoma zonifer

(Hubbs & Cannon, 1935)

Synonyms[2]

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

1. ↑ 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Etheostoma zonifer" in FishBase. December 2019 version.

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