Savannah darter

Savannah darter
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Percidae
Genus: Etheostoma
Species: E. fricksium
Binomial name
Etheostoma fricksium
(Hildebrand, 1923)

The Savannah darter (Etheostoma fricksium) is a species of darter endemic to the eastern United States, where it occurs in the Edisto, Combahee, Broad and Savannah River drainages in South Carolina and Georgia. It inhabits gravel riffles, gravel and sand runs of creeks and small rivers. This species can reach a length of 7.4 cm (2.9 in).[2]

References

  1. NatureServe (2015). "Etheostoma fricksium". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 4.1 (4.1). International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). "Etheostoma fricksium" in FishBase. March 2016 version.


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