D.A. Neely
S. J. Walsh
N.M. Burkhead
J.D. Williams
2007
<p>Three new species of <i>Percina</i> are described from upland drainages of the Mobile Basin. Two of the three species are narrowly distributed: <i>P. kusha</i>, the Bridled Darter, is currently known only from the Conasauga River drainage in Georgia and Tennessee and Etowah River drainage in Georgia, both tributaries of the Coosa River, and <i>P. sipsi</i>, the Bankhead Darter, which is restricted to tributaries of Sipsey Fork of the Black Warrior River in northwestern Alabama. The third species, <i>P. smithvanizi</i>, the Muscadine Darter, occurs above the Fall Line in the Tallapoosa River drainage in eastern Alabama and western Georgia. In a molecular analysis using mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence data, <i>P. kusha</i> and <i>P. smithvanizi</i> were recovered as sister species, while <i>Percina sipsi</i> was recovered in a clade consisting of <i>P. aurolineata</i> (<i>P. sciera + P. sipsi</i>). Two of the three species, <i>P. kusha</i> and <i>P. sipsi</i>, are considered to be imperiled species and are in need of conservation actions to prevent their extinction. Description of these three darters increases the number of described species of <i>Percina</i> to 44. Sixteen are known to occur in the Mobile Basin, including nine that are endemic. </p>
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10.11646/zootaxa.1549.1.1
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Magnolia Press
Three new percid fishes (Percidae: Percina) from the Mobile Basin drainage of Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee
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