--Bruce Stallsmith
Huntsville, AL
>From: Noturus_at_aol.com
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>Subject: Re: NANFA-- The dreaded darter ID
>Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 07:55:53 EDT
>
>In a message dated 10/2/00 6:11:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>fundulus_at_hotmail.com writes:
>
><< I have a question of darter minutiae... 2 Saturdays ago we went to
>Mountain
> Fork of the Flint River here in Madison County, Alabama. We found at
>least 5
> different species of darters in this stream--rainbow, greenside,
>Tennessee
> snubnose, Black snubnose, and stripetail (Eth. kennicotti). I kept a very
> large "stripetail" and once home I realized that it lacks one diagnostic
> trait that separates Eth. kennicotti from Eth. flabellare, the fantail
> darter. This trait is a submarginal black band on the first dorsal fin.
>This
> specimen has a fairly deep red band at the top of the first dorsal but no
> black beneath it. My question to the assembled darter experts is, do
> kennicotti invariably have a black submarginal band, or have I found
>maybe
> my first flabellare out of this stream? Mettee et al. in "Fishes of
>Alabama"
> speak of flabellare being found in the Paint Rock system just to the
>east,
> and in Limestone and Lauderdale counties to the west; but not in the
>Flint
> system...
> >>
>
>Bruce, All of the kennicoti I've seen have the sub-marginal
>bands...especially adults. Can you post a photo?
>
>
>
>J.R. <_at_}}}}}}}><
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