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Percina crassa

Piedmont Darter
NS G4
Collection Details

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Taxonomic Hierarchy

Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes) Perciformes (Perciformes, Also Called the Acanthopteri) Percidae (Perches) Percina Percina crassa (Piedmont 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: Cape Fear, Peedee and Santee River drainages in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina in the USA.

Habitat Associations

Freshwater. benthopelagic.

Biology

Inhabits rocky riffles and runs of small to medium rivers.
Max length: 9.0 cm TL; common length: 5.8 cm TL.
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2012-03-01. Resilience: High (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

References

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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