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Etheostoma duryi

Blackside Snubnose Darter
NS G4
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Taxonomic Hierarchy

Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes) Perciformes (Perciformes, Also Called the Acanthopteri) Percidae (Perches) Etheostoma Etheostoma duryi (Blackside Snubnose Darter)

Description

This species account was compiled from FishBase (Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version 04/2025.) and processed using AI-assisted text extraction. It may contain errors in spelling, punctuation, or formatting. When citing, please reference the original source rather than this page. Learn more about our species accounts.

Characters

Body shape: elongated.

Distribution

North America: found only in Tennessee River drainage in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama (absent in extreme upper Tennessee), USA.

Habitat Associations

Freshwater. benthopelagic.

Biology

Inhabits rocky pools and adjacent riffles of creeks and small rivers (Ref. 5723, 10294).
Max length: 7.2 cm TL; common length: 5.0 cm TL.
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2011-12-09. Resilience: High (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

References

Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea and W.B. Scott (1991) Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Publ. (20):183 p.
Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr (1991) A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 432 p.

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