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Etheostoma kennicotti

Summary 2

The stripetail darter (Etheostoma kennicotti) is found in tributaries of the Ohio, Tennessee, and Cumberland Rivers throughout Illinois and Kentucky. It is also found in the Paint Rock River system which runs through Alabama, and is one of the 324 fish species found in Tennessee.

Distribution 3

Global Range: Range includes tributaries of lower Ohio River in southern Illinois and Kentucky; Green River drainage, Kentucky; upper Cumberland River drainage (Big South Fork and above), Kentucky and Tennessee; Tennessee River drainage, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi (Page and Burr 2011).

Habitat and ecology 4

Habitat and Ecology

Habitat includes pools of shallow headwaters, creeks, and small rivers with rocky substrate and moderate gradient; occurs in rubble in riffles and under stones and cut banks in pools; also in gravel- and sand-bedded streams with overhanging poolside vegetation; often occurs among emergent vegetation (Lee et al. 1980, Burr and Warren 1986; Etnier and Starnes 1993, Boschung and Mayden 2004, Page and Burr 2011). Eggs are laid on the underside of slab stones.

Systems
  • Freshwater

Iucn red list assessment 5


Red List Category
LC
Least Concern

Red List Criteria

Version
3.1

Year Assessed
2013

Assessor/s
NatureServe

Reviewer/s
Smith, K. & Darwall, W.R.T.

Contributor/s

Justification
Listed as Least Concern in view of the large extent of occurrence, large number of subpopulations, large population size, apparently stable trend, and lack of major threats.

Nature serve conservation status 6

Rounded Global Status Rank: G4 - Apparently Secure

Range description 7

Range includes tributaries of lower Ohio River in southern Illinois and Kentucky; Green River drainage, Kentucky; upper Cumberland River drainage (Big South Fork and above), Kentucky and Tennessee; Tennessee River drainage, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi (Page and Burr 2011).

Sources and Credits

  1. (c) Brian Wulker, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdwulker/13341916164/
  2. Adapted by rkkessler from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etheostoma_kennicotti
  3. (c) NatureServe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/28805633
  4. (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/34452923
  5. (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/34452920
  6. (c) NatureServe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/28805626
  7. (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/34452921

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