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Golden Darter
Etheostoma denoncourti Stauffer & van Snik, 1997
First described in: Stauffer, J. R., Jr. ; van Snik, E. S. (1997). New species of Etheostoma (Teleostei: Percidae) from the Upper Tennessee River. <em>Copeia.</em> 1997 (1): 116-122.
The golden darter (Etheostoma denoncourti) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a darter from the subfamily Etheostomatinae, part of the family Percidae, which also contains the perches, ruffes and pikeperches. It is found in the upper Tennessee River, one of the over 300 fish species found in Tennessee.
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Range & habitat
The golden darter is extremely localized. It can be found in the Tennessee River drainage, Virginia, and Tennessee. The species occurs in not more than 10 locations, and habitat quality is subject to ongoing declines. This darter is restricted to the Tennessee River drainage in Tennessee and Virginia. It has been collected from Copper Creek and the Clinch, Sequatchie, Duck, and Buffalo rivers.
In human culture
The golden darter was first formally described in 1997 by Jay Richard Stauffer, Jr. and Ellen S. van Snik Gray with the type locality given as Copper Creek, 180–460 meters upstream from its mouth on Virginia State Route 627, 2 kilometres (1.2 miles) south of Clinchport, Virginia. Previously these fish were considered to be the upper Tennessee River population of the Tippecanoe darter (E. tippiecanoe) but were found to differ in meristics and coloration. The specific name honours Robert F. Denoncourt who introduced Stauffer to the "diversity and complexity of the stream fishes in the southern Appalachian drainage".
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Etheostoma denoncourti in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2382338.