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Elassoma Okefenokee
The Okefenokee pygmy sunfish, ''Elassoma okefenokee'', is a species of pygmy sunfish found in southeastern United States, where it prefers waters with dense vegetation growth in the Altamaha River, Altamaha drainage in southern Georgia south to Lake Okeechobee, Florida, interior lake basins in north-central Florida, and upper Suwannee River, Suwannee, Withlacoochee River (Florida), Withlacoochee, and Hillsborough River (Florida), Hillsborough river drainages on the Gulf Coast of Florida. This species can reach in fish measurement, total length. Description The Okefenokee pygmy sunfish is an olive green color fish with brownish-red mottling across the body, mixed with bright blue colors. ''Elassoma okefenokee'' differs from its close relative ''Elassoma gilberti'' by only having three preopercular canals (gilberti has, on average, four). The average number of anal fin rays is seven in ''E. gilberti'' whereas ''E. okefenokee'' has 8. The female ''E. gilberti'' often expresses a blu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Erwin Böhlke
James Erwin Böhlke (1930–1982) was an American ichthyologist. From 1954 to 1982, he was curator of the Department of Ichthyology at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (today the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University). He published over 120 papers on diverse groups of fishes and topics, primarily in his areas of expertise, fishes of the Bahamas, Caribbean, and South America. His wife Eugenia (Genie) Brandt Böhlke (1928–2001) was also a noted ichthyologist. The serranid fish genus ''Jeboehlkia ''Jeboehlkia'' is a monotypic genus of marine ray-finned fish, related to the groupers and classified within the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae. It is a species of relatively deep water which is found in the western Atlantic Oce ...'' is named in his honour, Taxon described by him *See :Taxa named by James Erwin Böhlke Taxon named in his honor *The Sand Stargazer '' Dactyloscopus boehlkei'' C. E. Dawson, 1982 *'' Monognathus boehlke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |