Darter (disambiguation)
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Darter may refer to:
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Animals
- DarterDarterThe darters or snakebirds are mainly tropical waterbirds in the family Anhingidae. There are four living species, three of which are very common and widespread while the fourth is rarer and classified as near-threatened by the IUCN. The term "snakebird" is usually used without any additions to...
s or snakebirds, birds of the genusGenusIn biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
Anhinga - FishFishFish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
es of several PercidaePercidaeThe Percidae are a family of perciform fish found in fresh and brackish waters of the Northern Hemisphere. The family contains about 200 species in ten genera...
genera:- AmmocryptaAmmocryptaSand darters are a genus, Ammocrypta, of perches native to Canada and the continental United States.-Species:* Naked sand darter, Ammocrypta beanii Jordan, 1877.* Florida sand darter, Ammocrypta bifascia Williams, 1975....
(sand darters) - EtheostomaEtheostomaEtheostoma is a diverse genus of small freshwater fish in the family Percidae. It contains nearly 140 member species. Most are native to North America. They are commonly known as darters although the term "darter" is shared by several other genera...
(smoothbelly darters) - PercinaPercinaPercina is a genus of small bony fishes of the family Percidae, mostly from North America. Like similar Etheostomatinae they are called "darters". More specifically the genus as a whole is known as roughbelly darters, while certain species of Percina with a pattern of vertical bars on the flanks...
(roughbelly darters)
- Ammocrypta
- Dragonflies of the genus SympetrumSympetrumSympetrum is a genus of small to medium sized skimmer dragonflies, known as darters in the UK and as meadowhawks in the North America...
Other
- A person who throws or uses dartsDart (missile)Darts are missile weapons, designed to fly such that a sharp, often weighted point will strike first. They can be distinguished from javelins by fletching and a shaft that is shorter and/or more flexible, and from arrows by the fact that they are not of the right length to use with a normal...
. - USS DarterUSS DarterUSS Darter has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:, a submarine commissioned in 1943 and wrecked in 1944, a submarine in commission from 1956 to 1989...
, one of two United States naval ships.