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Common Name: swamp darter
Taxonomy: available through 
Identification: Page (1983); Smith (1985); Page and Burr (1991); Etnier and Starnes (1993); Jenkins and Burkhead (1994).
Size: 5.9 cm.
Native Range: Seaboard Lowlands, Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains from southern Maine
to Louisiana (Sabine River) and southeastern Oklahoma (Red River);
Former Mississippi Embayment north to Kentucky and southeastern
Missouri (Page and Burr 1991). Collette (1962) gave a dot distribution
map.
Nonindigenous Occurrences: This species was collected in the Tennessee River drainage from a pond near the French Broad River, approximately seven miles south of Asheville, North Carolina (Bailey 1950; Bailey et al. 1954; Collette 1962; Menhinick 1991; Page and Burr 1991).
Means of Introduction: Unknown.
Status: Established in North Carolina, at least from 1947-1952 (Bailey 1950; Collette 1962). Present status unknown.
Impact of Introduction: Unknown.
Remarks: This species was incorrectly considered introduced to a coastal stream west of the Thames River, Connecticut, by Schmidt and Whitworth (1979) (Schmidt 1986). Fish collected from this location were incorrectly described as a new subspecies, Hololepis barratti apalachia (Bailey 1950; Bailey et al. 1954). Hololepis is now considered a subgenus of Etheostoma and barratti, which was once a subspecies of fusiforme, was placed back in the species fusiforme (Collette 1962).
Other Resources:
FishBase Fact Sheet
Author: Pam Fuller
Revision Date: 12/5/2003 Citation for this information:
Pam Fuller. 2009. Etheostoma fusiforme. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=813> Revision Date: 12/5/2003
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