Etheostoma trisella Bailey & Richards, 1963
Trispot darter
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Erroneously listed as Extinct by (Bailey & Richards, 1963 fide Miller et al., 1989:37)
IUCN RedList status: Vulnerable
Distribution & Habitat
Alabama, Georgia & Tennessee, USA
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bailey, R. M. and Richards, W. J. (1963). Status of Poecilichthys hopkinsi Fowler and Etheostoma trisella, new species, percid fishes from Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. 630: 1-21.
Other references:
Bart, H.L., Jr. and Page, L.M. 1992. The influence of size and phylogeny on life history variation in North American percids. In: R.L. Mayden (ed.), Systematics, historical ecology, and North American freshwater fishes, pp. 553-572. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California.
Boschung, H.T. and Mayden, R.L. 2004. Fishes of Alabama. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
Etnier, D.A. and Starnes, W.C. 1993. The fishes of Tennessee. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Howell, W.M. and Caldwell, R.D. 1967. Discovery of a second specimen of the darter, Etheostoma trisella. Copeia 1967(1): 235-236.
Jelks, H.L., Walsh, S.J., Burkhead, N.M., Contreras-Balderas, S., Díaz-Pardo, E., Hendrickson, D.A., Lyons, J., Mandrak, N.E., McCormick, F., Nelson, J.S., Platania, S.P., Porter, B.A., Renaud, C.B., Jacobo Schmitter-Soto, J., Taylor, E.B. and Warren, M.L., Jr. 2008. Conservation status of imperiled North American freshwater and diadromous fishes. Fisheries 33(8): 372-407.
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.
Mettee, M.F., O'Neil, P.E. and Pierson, J.M. 1996. Fishes of Alabama and the Mobile Basin. Oxmoor House, Birmingham, Alabama.
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.
Nelson, J.S., Crossman, E.J., Espinosa-Perez, H., Findley, L.T., Gilbert, C.R., Lea, R.N. and Williams, J.D. 2004. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
O'Neil, P.E., Shepard, T.E., Johnson, C.C., Spadgenske, E. and Powell, J. 2009. Rediscovery of the trispot darter, Etheostoma trisella, in Alabama. Geological Survey of Alabama Water Investigations Program, Tuscaloosa, A.
Page, L.M. 1983. Handbook of Darters. T. F. H. Publications, 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.
Ryon, M.G. 1986. The life history and ecology of Etheostoma trisella (Pisces: Percidae). American Midland Naturalist 115: 73-86.