The Choctawhatchee darter (''Etheostoma davisoni'')is a species of freshwater
ray-finned fish, a darter from the
subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoologi ...
Etheostomatinae
Etheosomatidae is a species rich subfamily of freshwater ray-finned fish, the members of which are commonly known as the darters. The subfamily is part of the family Percidae which also includes the perches, ruffes and pikeperches. The famil ...
, part of the
family Percidae, which also contains the
perches,
ruffes, and
pikeperches. It is
endemic to the eastern
United States, where it occurs in the
Choctawhatchee and
Pensacola Bay drainages in the
Florida panhandle
The Florida Panhandle (also West Florida and Northwest Florida) is the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Florida; it is a Salient (geography), salient roughly long and wide, lying between Alabama on the north and the west, Georgia (U. ...
and southern
Alabama. It inhabits sandy and muddy pools of creeks and small rivers. This species can reach a length of .
References
Etheostoma
Fish described in 1885
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