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Common Name: banded killifish
Synonyms and Other Names: eastern banded killifish, western banded killifish
Taxonomy: available through 
Identification: Becker (1983); Smith (1985); Page and Burr (1991); Jenkins and Burkhead (1994). This species is represented by two subspecies, F. d. diaphanus and F. d. menona.
Size: 13 cm.
Native Range:
Atlantic Slope drainages from Newfoundland to Pee Dee River, South Carolina; St. Lawrence-Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins from Quebec to Manitoba, and south to southern Pennsylvania, northern Illinois, and northeastern Nebraska. Two subspecies with intergrades in St. Lawrence and Lake Erie drainages: F. d. diaphanus on the Atlantic Slope, F. d. menona in the rest of the range (Page and Burr 1991).
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Nonindigenous Occurrences: The species is established in Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, Franklin County, Massachussetts (USFWS 2005). The eastern subspecies F. d. diaphanus was introduced into Lake Erie, the Little Miami drainage, and several areas in the upper Ohio River basin in Ohio, and into the Ohio and Beaver River drainages (Raney 1938, cited in Trautman 1981), the Monongahela drainage (Hocutt et al. 1986), and the Youghiogheny River (Hendricks et al. 1979) in Pennsylvania. This species was accidentally stocked in Lake Andes, South Dakota, by a federal hatchery stocking of largemouth bass (Bailey and Allum 1962). Fundulus diaphanus is known from the Columbia and Willamette rivers, Oregon (Bond, 1994). It is established in Big McNary Lake on Sauvie Island in the Columbia River, Oregon (Logan 1995). It also has been reported from Washington (Fletcher, personal communication).
Means of Introduction: The fish was transplanted to parts of eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania from the Delaware River drainage of eastern Pennsylvania (Raney 1938, cited in Trautman 1981). A population in Clough Creek, Ohio, was likely the result of an aquarium release (Trautman 1981). One lake in South Dakota was stocked accidentally with largemouth bass (Bailey and Allum 1962). The species was introduced into other areas through unknown means; possibly bait bucket releases.
Status: Established in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and South Dakota. Reported from Oregon and Washington. In Pennsylvania, known from the Ohio and Beaver drainages and established in the Youghiogheny.
Impact of Introduction: Unknown.
Remarks:
According to Bond (1994), the Oregon introduction involved the subspecies Fundulus diaphanus diaphanus; however, Li (personal communication) reported it as being the western subspecies F. d. menona. The Washington record was also reported as F. d. menona (Fletcher, personal communication).
Voucher specimens: Ohio (OSM 33514, 13865).
Bailey, R. M. and M. O. Allum. 1962. Fishes of South Dakota. Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 119:1-131.
Fletcher, D. - Warmwater Fisheries Resource Manager, Washington Department of Wildlife, Olympia, WA. Response to NBS-G nonindigenous questionaire and other reports. 1992.
Hendricks, M. L., J. R. Stauffer, Jr., C. H. Hocutt, and C. R. Gilbert. 1979. A preliminary checklist of the fishes of the Youghiogheny River. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Natural History Miscellanea 203:1-15.
Li, H. - Professor, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
Page, L. M., and B. M. Burr. 1991. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. The Peterson Field Guide Series, volume 42. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA.
Raney, E. C. 1938. The distribution of the fishes of the Ohio drainage basin of western Pennsylvania. Doctoral dissertation. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 102 pp.
Trautman, M. B. 1981. The fishes of Ohio. Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH.
Other Resources:
FishBase Fact Sheet
Author: Pam Fuller
Revision Date: 4/13/2006 Citation for this information:
Pam Fuller. 2009. Fundulus diaphanus. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=685> Revision Date: 4/13/2006
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