Two new species of Etheostoma from the Black Warrior River System (Mobile Basin) of Alabama (Teleostei: Percidae)
Author
Mayden, Richard L.
Department of Biology, 3507 Laclede Ave, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63103.
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Kuhajda, Bernard R.
Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute, 175 Baylor School Road, Chattanooga, TN 37405.
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Zootaxa
2025
2025-04-03
5618
3
351
371
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5618.3.3
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10.11646/zootaxa.5618.3.3
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TABLE 2. Distributions of Scale and Fin- Ray Counts in Etheostoma bellator, E. kimberlae and E. michellae. Underlined numbers are modes. | Lateral Line Scale Rows | | | | | | | | | |
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| 40 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | N | Mean | SD |
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| Etheostoma bellator | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 56 | 48.4 | 2.21 |
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| Etheostoma michellae | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | | 37 | 46.3 | 2.03 |
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| Etheostoma kimberlae | | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 63 | 48.0 | 2.54 |
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| Caudal Fin Rays | | | | | | | | | | |
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| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | N | Mean | SD | | |
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| Etheostoma bellator Etheostoma michellae Etheostoma kimberlae | 3 | 8 2 1 | 17 6 1 | 7 5 6 | 9 8 21 | 8 10 24 | 3 6 10 | 1 | 56 37 63 | 14.9 17.0 16.5 | 1.70 1.50 1.03 | | |
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| Pectoral Fin Rays | | | | | | | | | | |
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| Etheostoma bellator Etheostoma michellae | 12 3 | 13 16 13 | 14 34 23 | 15 3 1 | N 56 37 | Mean 14.2 13.7 | SD 0.64 0.53 | | | | | | |
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| Etheostoma kimberlae | 2 | 46 | 15 | | 63 | 13.2 | 0.48 | | | | | | |
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