Etheostoma acuticeps Bailey, 1959
Sharphead darter
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Erroneously listed as Extinct by (Bailey & Richards, 1963 fide Miller et al., 1989:37)
Distribution & Habitat
North Carolina, Tennessee & Virginia, USA
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Bart, H. L., Jr. and Page, L. M. (1992). The influence of size and phylogeny on life history variation in North American percids, pp. 553-572. In: Mayden, R. L. (ed.). Systematics, historical ecology, and North American freshwater fishes. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
Bryant, R. T. (1979). The life history and comparative ecology of the sharphead darter, Etheostoma acuticeps. Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Technical Report No.
Burkhead, N. M. and Jenkins, R. E. (1991). Fishes. In: in K. Terwilliger (coordinator) (ed.), Virginia's Endangered Species: Proceedings of a Symposium, pp. 321-409. McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company, Blacksburg, Virginia.
Etnier, D. A. and Starnes, W. C. (1993). The fishes of Tennessee. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Jenkins, R.E. and Burkhead, N.M. 1975. Recent capture and analysis of the sharphead darter, Etheostoma acuticeps, an endangered percid fish of the upper Tennessee River drainage. Copeia 1975(4): 731-740.
Jenkins, R.E. and Burkhead, N.M. 1994. Freshwater fishes of Virginia. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
Kuehne, R.A. and Barbour, R.W. 1983. The American Darters. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.
Lee, D.S., Gilbert, C.R., Hocutt, C.H., Jenkins, R.E., McAllister, D.E. and Stauffer, J.R. Jr. 1980. Atlas of North American freshwater fishes. North Carolina State Museum of Natural History, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Menhinick, E.F. 1991. The freshwater fishes of North Carolina. North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.
Miller, Robert Rush, Williams, James D. and Williams, Jack E. (1989). Extinctions of North American fishes during the past century. Fisheries 14(6): 22-38.
NatureServe. (2014). Etheostoma acuticeps. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T8107A15363986. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T8107A15363986.en. Accessed on 14 September 2025.
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Page, L.M. 1983. Handbook of Darters. T. F. H. Pub., Inc., Neptune City, New Jersey.
Page, L.M. and Burr, B.M. 1991. A field guide to freshwater fishes: North America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts.
Page, L.M. and Burr, B.M. 2011. Peterson field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, Massachusetts.
Robins, C.R., Bailey, R.M., Bond, C.E., Brooker, J.R., Lachner, E.A., Lea, R.N. and Scott, W.B. 1991. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society.
Rohde, F.C. and Arndt, R.G. 1994. Distribution and abudance of the sharphead darter, Etheostoma acuticeps (Percidae), in North Carolina. ASB Bull 41(3): 153-159.
Wood, R.M. 1996. Phylogenetic systematics of the darter subgenus Nothonotus (Teleostei: Percidae). Copeia 1996: 300-318.