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Sickle Darter
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IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Sickle Darter

Percina williamsi

The sickle darter (Percina williamsi) is a recently identified species closely related to a well-known darter, Percina macrocephala. Discovered in 2007 in the upper Tennessee River drainage, the sickle darter is a small (around 90.5 mm),slender bodied, freshwater and benthopelagic fish that most likely feeds on small crayfish and mayflies since it shares a large mouth and long snout with its sister species . The known distribution of the sickle darter is the upper drainage of the...

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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 109111.