Okaloosa darter

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Okaloosa darter

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Percidae
Genus:	Etheostoma
Species:	E. okaloosae

Binomial name

Etheostoma okaloosae
Fowler, 1941

The Okaloosa darter (scientific name: Etheostoma okaloosae) is a fish indigenous to fresh-water streams and tributary systems in Okaloosa and Walton counties in northwest Florida. It is a small and elongated fish, less than 50 millimeters in length. The species specific population is currently unknown (estimated between 1,500 to 10,000)

Because of extensive habitat improvement efforts by the Jackson Guard at Eglin Air Force Base, the US Fish & Wildlife Service recommended that the fish be reclassified from endangered to threatened status in 2007.

[edit] References

Rudman, Mladen [1] "A good fish story: Okaloosa darter may be taken off endangered list"

Collette, B.B., and R.W. Yerger. 1962. The American Percid Fishes of the Subgenus Villora. Tulane Stud. Zool. 9:213-230.

Mettee, M.F., and E. Crittenden. 1979. A study of Etheostoma okaloosae (Fowler) and E. edwini (Hubbs and Cannon) in Northwestern Florida, 1975-78. Rep. to U.S. Fish and Wild. Serv., Atlanta, GA.

Ogilvie, V.E. 1980. Endangered Wildlife Project. E-1, Study I-J: Okaloosa darter investigation. Completion report, October 1, 1977-June 3O, 1980. Fla. Fresh Water Fish Comm., Tallahassee.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1981. Recovery Plan for the Okaloosa Dsrter (Etheostoma okaloosae). Prepared by the Okaloosa Darter Recovery Team for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Atlanta Georgia. 24 pp.

Yerger, R.W. 1978. Okaloosa Darter, pp. 2-4. In C.R. Gilbert (ed.). Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Vol. 4, Fishes. Univ. Press. Fla., Gainesville.