Re: NANFA-- MD Collecting 12/26

Mike Thennet (thennet_michael_at_tmac.com)
Tue, 28 Dec 1999 08:18:16 -0500

Dave,

I have read that notagramma tend to prefer creek/run pools over turbulant riffles
but I'm sure you guys thoroughly shocked the pool areas as well as riffles.

Notagramma is supposedly widespread in VA but I have yet to locate them at any
location.

Mike

Dave Neely wrote:

> Mike,
>
> >Sounds like you guys had a pretty good time despite the cool weather.
> > >Chris sent out notices of the trip a couple of weeks ahead of time which
> >was more than adequate. Sorry to hear the glassy and stripebacks darters
> >were not collected. I would like to find a location in VA which has such
> >species. As I understand, the
> >glassy darter is similar to the sand darters of the Central U.S in behavior
> >and appearance.
>
> Both are common in Virginia. If you want locality info, the Cornell and UMMZ
> collections are both searchable online, and have a decent amount of VA
> material (don't have the URL handy, but you can get to them through
> Ichthyology Web Resources). I've gotten both in the same seine haul in tribs
> to the James.
>
> Glassy darters are really awesome fish- during the spring, the males become
> tuberculate, darken, and are very strikingly pigmented (unlike Ammocrypta,
> but similar to Boleosoma [olmstedi, nigrum, susanae, etc.). I'm very
> concerned about the status of notogramma in Maryland- it has a very
> restricted range in the State, and between the development (post-1995) I
> alluded to in my earlier post and this summer's drought, I'm worried that
> they might not have made it.
>
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