Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Percidae > Etheostoma > Etheostoma zonaleEtheostoma zonale (Banded darter)Synonyms: Etheostoma zonale arcansanum; Nanostoma vinctipes; Poecilichthys zonalis Language: Danish; Mandarin Chinese Etheostoma zonale, the banded darter, is a species of darter endemic to the eastern United States. It is mainly found in the Mississippi Basin, ranging from the Verdigris River in Kansas eastward to the Allegheny River in New York, and from the Minnesota River in Minnesota southward to the Ouachita River in Arkansas and the Tennessee River in Alabama. Its typical habitat in small and medium-sized rivers is riffles over cobble or gravel, rock slabs, and small boulders. It feeds on the riverbed on small insect larvae and is itself eaten by birds and larger fish. Males become more colorful and become territorial before spawning which takes place in spring. The females attach the eggs to waterweed. The population trend of this fish seems to be stable, it is a common species with numerous sub-p |
Adult Length [1] | 3.15 inches (8 cm) | Brood Dispersal [1] | In the open | Brood Egg Substrate [1] | Phyto-lithophils | Brood Guarder [1] | No | Litter Size [1] | 300 | Maximum Longevity [1] | 4 years | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Vertebrates) | | Female Maturity [1] | 1 year 6 months |
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Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Chesapeake Bay |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Buffalo National River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
59947 |
Arkansas, United States |
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Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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40530 |
United States |
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Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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North Carolina, United States |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
II |
515454 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore |
II |
8272 |
Indiana, United States |
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Mammoth Cave Area Biosphere Reserve (Natn'l Park) National Park |
II |
51235 |
Kentucky, United States |
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Obed Wild and Scenic River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
5268 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Wilson's Creek National Battlefield |
V |
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Missouri, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495. ♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.orgEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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