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Common names: Redline darter
Occurrence: endemic
Salinity: freshwater
Abundance: abundant (always seen in some numbers) | Ref: Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 1991
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Known only from Cumberland (below Big South Fork) and Tennessee River drainages in Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi (Ref. 5723). Also Ref. 10294. Status of threat of Clarks Rver, Hiwassee River, and Toccoa River populations: vulnerable. Criteria: 1,5 (http://fisc.er.usgs.gov/afs/) (Ref. 81264).
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 1991
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Common names from other countries

红线镖鲈, Rødlinjet smutte, 紅線鏢鱸, ... more

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> 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); rufilineatum: From the words ruf, meaning red, and lineatum, lined (Ref. 10294).
More on author: Cope.

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

; agua dulce bentopelágico. Temperate; 38°N - 34°N

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North America: known only from Cumberland (below Big South Fork) and Tennessee River drainages in Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi in the USA.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 8.4 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 5723); common length : 7.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 12193)

Inhabit clear, fast rocky riffles of creeks and small to medium rivers (Ref. 5723); also found in streams (Ref. 10294). Adults feed on midge and blackfly larvae, with baetid and heptageniid mayfly nymphs, hydropsychid and hydroptilid caddis larvae, and water mites (Ref. 10294). Eggs are found buried in the substrate (Ref. 7043).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturities | Reproducción | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larva

Eggs are left buried in small gravel and pebbles (Ref. 74730).

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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)

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Etheostoma rufilineatum (Cope, 1870)