the picture with 2 darters may have rainbow darters - could they be banded
darters? I'm not sure of their distribution.
Geoff Kimber
lexington,ky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay DeLong" <thirdwind_at_att.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 4:52 PM
Subject: RE: NANFA-- IL_IN NANFA chapter Fall trip - Sun Oct 6th
> At 01:24 PM 10/9/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >I just looked up a picture of a dusky, and it appears I've demonstrated
my
> >ignorance in other regions. Wow they are close. However, wishfully
thinking,
> >I hope it was a Blackside... not be right, but to see them in their
former
> >habitat :)
>
> It's not ignorance-- that's what libraries and such are for :-) I recall
> that the Vermilion is a Wabash tributary, so has a different fauna than
> other Illinois streams to the west.
>
> Also, around the time of the 1999 convention American Currents had a good
> article on the fishes of the region, written by Michael Rezner of the
> Illinois Natural History Survey.
>
> And after looking again at the 2 unnamed darters in the one photo I'm sure
> they aren't fantails. Maybe rainbows?
>
> --
> Jay DeLong
> Olympia, WA
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