Percina

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Roughbelly darters and logperches
Leopard Darter, Percina pantherina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Percidae
Subfamily: Etheostomatinae
Genus: Percina
Haldeman, 1842
Species

47, see text

Percina is a genus of small bony fishes of the family Percidae from North America. Like similar Etheostomatinae they are called "darters". More specifically the genus as a whole is known as roughbelly darters, while certain species of Percina with a pattern of vertical bars on the flanks are called logperches.

Species

The genus contains 47 species:

  • Percina antesella – Amber Darter
  • Percina apristis – Guadalupe Darter (Hubbs & Hubbs 1954) (often included in P. sciera)
  • Percina aurantiaca – Tangerine Darter
  • Percina aurolineata – Goldline Darter
  • Percina aurora Suttkus & Thompson, 1994 – Pearl Darter
  • Percina austroperca – Southern Logperch
  • Percina bimaculata – Chesapeake Logperch (often included in P. caprodes)
  • Percina brevicauda Suttkus & Bart, 1994 – Coal Darter
  • Percina burtoni – Blotchside Logperch
  • Percina caprodes – Common Logperch
  • Percina carbonaria (Baird & Girard, 1853) – Texas Logperch
  • Percina copelandi – Channel Darter
  • Percina crassa (Jordan & Brayton, 1878) – Piedmont Darter
  • Percina crypta Freeman, Freeman & Burkhead, 2008 – Halloween Darter
  • Percina cymatotaenia – Bluestripe Darter
  • Percina evides (Jordan & Copeland, 1877) – Gilt Darter
  • Percina fulvitaenia Morris & Page, 1981 – Ozark Logperch
  • Percina gymnocephala Beckham, 1980 – Appalachia Darter
  • Percina jenkinsi – Conasauga Logperch
  • Percina kathae Thompson, 1997 – Mobile Logperch
  • Percina kusha Williams & Burkhead, 2007 – Bridled Darter
  • Percina lenticula – Freckled Darter
  • Percina macrocephala (Cope, 1867) – Longhead Darter
  • Percina macrolepida Stevenson, 1971 – Bigscale Logperch
  • Percina maculata (Girard, 1859) – Blackside Darter
  • Percina nasuta – Longnose Darter
  • Percina nevisense (Cope, 1870) – Chainback Darter
  • Percina nigrofasciata (Agassiz, 1854) – Blackbanded Darter
  • Percina notogramma (Raney & Hubbs, 1948) – Stripeback Darter
  • Percina oxyrhynchus (Hubbs & Raney, 1939) – Sharpnose Darter
  • Percina palmaris (Bailey, 1940) – Bronze Darter
  • Percina pantherina – Leopard Darter
  • Percina peltata (Stauffer, 1864) – Shield Darter
  • Percina phoxocephala (Nelson, 1876) – Slenderhead Darter
  • Percina rex – Roanoke Logperch
  • Percina roanoka (Jordan & Jenkins, 1889) – Roanoke Darter
  • Percina sciera (Swain, 1883) – Dusky Darter
  • Percina shumardi (Girard, 1859) – River Darter
  • Percina sipsi Williams & Neely, 2007 – Bankhead Darter
  • Percina smithvanizi Williams & Walsh, 2007 – Muscadine Darter
  • Percina squamata (Gilbert & Swain, 1887) – Olive Darter
  • Percina stictogaster Burr & Page, 1993 – Frecklebelly Darter
  • Percina suttkusi Thompson, 1997 – Gulf Logperch
  • Percina tanasi – Snail Darter
  • Percina uranidea – Stargazing Darter
  • Percina vigil (Hay, 1882) – Saddleback Darter
  • Percina williamsi Page & Near, 2007 – Sickle Darter

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