TN00130 TIPPECANOE DARTER ETHEOSTOMA TIPPECANOE
| Species ID | TN00130 |
| Name | DARTER, TIPPECANOE |
| Other Common Names | |
| Category | 01 Fish |
| Elcode | |
| Phylum | CHORDATA |
| Subphylum | |
| Class | OSTEICHTHYES |
| Subclass | |
| Suborder | |
| Order | PERCIFORMES |
| Family | PERCIDAE |
| Genus | ETHEOSTOMA |
| Species | TIPPECANOE |
| Subspecies | |
| Authority | JORDON & EVERMANN 1890 |
| Scientific Name | ETHEOSTOMA TIPPECANOE |
Comments
This species belongs to the subgenus Nothonotus. It apparently diverged early and relationships with other Nothonotus species are unclear. The Clinch system population is distinctive but unnamed *816*. It was previously called Etheostoma sciotense *2208*. This species hybridizes with the bluebreast darter *1306*. It is one of the smallest of all darters, and differs in aspects of squamation, position of cephalic lateralis pore and features of coloration. The taxonomic data of a series from Duck River, lower Tennessee drainage, conforms to those from the Clinch, indicating that all populations of the drainage compose one unit *4205*. Zorach (1969) declined to recognize this form nomenclaturally, but it could be described as a full species *4205*.