| Maryland darter | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Percidae |
| Genus: | Etheostoma |
| Subgenus: | Etheostoma |
| Species: | E. sellare |
| Binomial name | |
| Etheostoma sellare (Radcliffe & Welsh, 1913) |
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The Maryland darter (Etheostoma sellare) is freshwater fish species that has been found only in Deer Creek, Maryland. It is now a thought to be extinct. It was long known only by two specimens until it was rediscovered in 1962. From 1965 to the 1980s, it was only confined to a single riffle in Deer Creek. The species may have fallen victim to habitat destruction. It was last observed in 1988. While the IUCN has declared the species extinct,[1] the United States Fish and Wildlife Service has not, and keeps it on the Endangered Species List.[2]