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, Mar 06 2011 10:51 AM
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Posted 06 March 2011 - 10:51 AM
Darters are by no means my area of expertise, and it seems to me that the point of a public forum is so those of us with an area of expertise can teach those without. So, instead of guessing along with my ID book, I figured I'd toss this guy out there and see who can help. I caught this guy in the Little River in eastern Wake County, NC.
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Posted 06 March 2011 - 08:38 PM
Wake County is one of the only places where Johnny and Tesselated darters overlap. It's one of those two, but hard to be sure which is which except with breeding males. Other darters I've caught in Little River are Sawcheek, Roanoke, Chainback, and maybe Glassy. Was this at the Zebulon town park at NC-97 ?
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Posted 06 March 2011 - 08:50 PM
Wake County is one of the only places where Johnny and Tesselated darters overlap. It's one of those two, but hard to be sure which is which except with breeding males. Other darters I've caught in Little River are Sawcheek, Roanoke, Chainback, and maybe Glassy. Was this at the Zebulon town park at NC-97 ?
Yeah those were the two I had it narrowed down to. And no, I caught this one off of NC-96 right at Mitchell Mill Rd.
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Posted 07 March 2011 - 01:20 PM
FWIW, the NC-DWQ fish community database lists Tesselated but not Johnny in Little River. The Virginia Fishes book (Jenkins & Burkhead) has a more detailed comparison of those two than Menhinick's NC Fishes book. Them flatrocks at NC-96 are pretty cool, eh?
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