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Eastern Sand Darter
Ammocrypta pellucida
The eastern sand darter (Ammocrypta pellucida) is a fish species of the Percidae family. The eastern sand darter is a relatively small perch, most plentiful in the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, as well as Lakes Champlain, Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Ontario. It prefers sandy-bottomed streams and sandy shoals in the lakes. The eastern sand darter feeds on larvae of black flies and other small insects in the water. They also feed on zooplankton in small portions...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 93852.