Bluntnose Darter
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Bluntnose darters are typically found in sandy, slow running, shallow water. They also can be found occupying areas with scattered debris. Substrates that are somewhat firm also provide a good habitat for bluntnose darters.
Habitat Regions: freshwater
- Etnier, D., W. Starnes. 1993. The Fishes of Tennessee. Knoxville, Tennessee: The University of Tennessee Press / Knoxville. Accessed October 29, 2005 at http://www.freeloadmp3.com/.
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Spawns probably in May in Illinois, beginning in April in Kansas (Kuehne and Barbour 1983), early January-late March in eastern Texas (Hubbs 1985). Age sexual maturity and maximum age of breeding females is 1 year (Bart and Page 1992).
Comments: Kendall (1997) corrected the spelling of the specific name from chlorosomum to chlorosoma. See Bart and Cashner (1986) for information on geographic variation.
Habitat and Ecology
Systems
- Freshwater
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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
There are 8 barcode sequences available from BOLD and GenBank.
Below is a sequence of the barcode region Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI or COX1) from a member of the species.
See the BOLD taxonomy browser for more complete information about this specimen and other sequences.
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Habitat Type: Freshwater
Comments: Habitat includes sluggish creeks and small to medium rivers of lowlands and level, undissected uplands; pools and backwaters without noticeable current, where the bottom is mud or sometimes sand and organic debris; also weedy lakes, ponds, oxbows, sloughs, and swamps (Lee et al. 1980, Page and Burr 2011). Eggs are laid on plants or plant debris (Page 1983).
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 8
Specimens with Barcodes: 8
Species With Barcodes: 1
benthopelagic; freshwater
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Bluntnose darters are threatened in several states along the Mississippi River and adjacent drainages. According to NatureServe Explorer ( http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/), bluntnose darters in Kansas are presumed extirpated, in Wisconsin they are critically imperiled, in Kansas they are imperiled, in Indiana they are vulnerable. Bluntnose darter populations are apparently secure in Kentucky, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Their decline could be caused by siltation resulting from agricultural runoff and creeks drying up during periods of drought.
US Federal List: no special status
CITES: no special status
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Inhabit muddy (sometimes sandy) pools and backwaters of creeks and small to medium rivers, weedy lakes and ponds, swamps (Ref. 5723) and streams (Ref. 10294). Adults feed on hydropsychid caddisfly, dytiscid beetle, and midge larvae (Ref. 10294). Eggs are found attached to the substrate unguarded (Ref. 7043).
- 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)
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