Tennessee logperch

Short description: Species of fish

Tennessee logperch

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

P. apina

Binomial name
Percina apina

Simmons, 2017

The Tennessee logperch (Percina apina) is a freshwater fish in the perch family found in the Duck River and White Oak Creek in Middle Tennessee.[1][2] The fish was first identified in 1971 as the Blotchside Logperch (Percina burtoni), but was found to be its own species in 2006.

## Description

The fish primarily varies from the Blotchside Logperch in its average scale count and pigmentation. Percina apina has a larger average number of lateral line scales and transverse scales. The pigmented spots along the Tennessee Logperch are on average wider and shorter than the spots on the Blotchside Logperch.[3]

## References

1. ↑ "New fish discovered in Middle Tennessee's Duck River watershed". Nooga.com. 29 November 2017. http://nooga.com/211465/new-fish-discovered-middle-tennessees-duck-river-watershed/.
2. ↑ Tretter, Liz (27 November 2017). "TVA Discovers New Fish Species in Tennessee River Watershed". WEKU. http://weku.fm/post/tva-discovers-new-fish-species-tennessee-river-watershed.
3. ↑ Thomas J. Near, Jeffrey W. Simmons, Jon Michael Mollish, Maria A. Correa, Edgar Benavides, Richard C. Harrington, and Benjamin P. Keck "A New Species of Logperch Endemic to Tennessee (Percidae: Etheostomatinae: Percina)," Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58(2), 287-309, (1 October 2017). https://doi.org/10.3374/014.058.0203

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