Speckled darter (Etheostoma stigmaeum)
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General data
- Main name: Speckled darter
- Climates: Subtropical
- Habitat: Freshwater
- Native: North America
- Distribution: Mobile River, Sabine River
Classification
- Genus: Etheostoma - Darters
- Family: Percidae - Perches
- Order: Perciformes - Perches
- Class: Actinopteri - Ray-finned fishes
- Superclass: Osteichthyes - Bony fishes
Speckled darter lives in Mississippi River basin from western Virginia to southeastern Kansas, and south to Louisiana in the USA; Gulf Slope drainages from Mobile Bay and Pensacola Bay in Georgia, Alabama and Florida to Sabine River in Louisiana in the USA; and in Clinch and Powell rivers in Virginia and Tennessee, USA.