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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); vulneratum: vulneratum meaning wounded (Ref. 10294).
More on author: Cope.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Freshwater; benthopelagic. Temperate; 38°N - 35°N
North America: known only from the upper Tennessee River drainages in Virginia, North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, USA. Previously treated as a subspecies of Etheostoma maculatum and of Etheostoma sanguifluum in the subgenus Nothonotus (Ref. 3814).
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 8.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 5723)
Inhabits fast rocky riffles of small to medium rivers (Ref. 5723, 10294). Adult feeds on midge larvae (Ref. 10294).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
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)
Threat to humans
Harmless
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