Banded Darter Etheostoma Zonale
by Dante Fenolio
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Banded Darter Etheostoma Zonale
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Dante Fenolio
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Darters are a group of benthic, perciform fishes that live along the bottoms of river and stream in North America. Many have small ranges and are imperiled or endangered. This is the Banded Darter (Etheostoma zonale). Photographed at the Conservation Fisheries Inc. facilities, 22 June 2018. According to the UCN, the range includes populations that are not in contact and includes Lake Michigan and Mississippi River basins from northwestern Michigan to Minnesota, south to northwestern Indiana and central Illinois; Ohio River basin from southwestern New York to eastern Indiana, south to northern Georgia and northern Alabama; Ozark-Ouachita drainages of southern Missouri, southeastern Kansas, Arkansas, and eastern Oklahoma. The species is introduced in Savannah River headwaters, South Carolina, and in the Susquehanna River, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
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December 1st, 2019
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