Southern sand darter

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Southern sand darter
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Perciformes
Family:
Percidae
Genus:
Ammocrypta
Species:
A. meridiana
Binomial name
Ammocrypta meridiana
J. D. Williams, 1975
Synonyms
  • Etheostoma meridiana

The southern sand darter (Ammocrypta meridiana) is a species of perch found in the Mobile Bay drainages in Alabama and Mississippi, namely the Alabama and the Tombigbee River systems. It inhabits sandy sections of flowing waters from streams to large rivers. This species can reach a length of 7.1 cm (2.8 in), though most are only about 7 cm (2.8 in) in length.[2]

References

  1. ^ Template:IUCN
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2014). "Ammocrypta meridiana" in FishBase. February 2014 version.


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