Finescale saddled darter
Encyclopedia
The finescale saddled darter (Etheostoma osburni) is a species of fish
in the Percidae
family. It is endemic to the United States
.
Knapp Creek in Pocahontas County
, West Virginia
is home to a population known colloquially as the Knapp Creek Candy Darter.
Fish
Fish 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...
in the Percidae
Percidae
The 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...
family. It is endemic to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
Knapp Creek in Pocahontas County
Pocahontas County
Pocahontas County is the name of two counties in the United States:* Pocahontas County, Iowa* Pocahontas County, West Virginia...
, West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...
is home to a population known colloquially as the Knapp Creek Candy Darter.
Source
- Gimenez Dixon, M. 1996. Etheostoma osburni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 4 August 2007.