Etheostoma parvipinne, Goldstripe darter

Etheostoma parvipinne Gilbert & Swain, 1887

Goldstripe darter
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Perciformes/Percoidei (Perchs) > Percidae (Perches) > Etheostomatinae
Etymology: Etheostoma: Greek, etheo = to strain + Greek, stoma = mouth; Rafinesque said "various mouths", but Jordan and Evermann suggest the name might have been intended as "Heterostoma (Ref. 45335); parvipinne: From the words parvi, meaning short or small, and pinne, fin (Ref. 10294).
More on authors: Gilbert & Swain.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; benthopelagic. Temperate; 38°N - 31°N

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North America: Altamaha and Flint River systems in Georgia to Navasota River system (Brazos River drainage) in Texas, USA; north in Former Mississippi Embayment to western Kentucky and southeastern Missouri in the USA.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 6.7 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 5723); common length : 4.6 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 12193)

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Body shape (shape guide): elongated.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Inhabits clay and sand-bottomed runs and pools of vegetated, spring-fed headwaters and creeks (Ref. 5723, 10294). Feeds on midge larvae, dipteran pupae, caddisfly larvae, dytiscid beetle larvae, and small crayfish (Ref. 10294).

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Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 1991. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 432 p. (Ref. 5723)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 29 December 2011

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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