Name that Etheostoma...
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Posted 11 December 2014 - 04:53 PM
Six Mile Creek, trib of a trib of the Saluda River, Santee System. Greenwood County, SC.
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Last time around we got thinking E. fusiforme and E. olmstedi.
http://forum.nanfa.o...bs-and-darters/
And one other post on this locale it was a pretty definite opinion that I the only darters I had were E. collis. I'd like to nail this down because I need to submit my collection data to renew my scientific collector's permit.
Thanks in advance!
"No thanks, a third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite..."
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Posted 11 December 2014 - 05:33 PM
#3
Posted 11 December 2014 - 07:52 PM
Derek Wheaton
On a mountain overlooking the North Fork Roanoke River on one side, the New River Valley on the other, and a few minutes away from the James River watershed...the good life...
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Posted 11 December 2014 - 08:10 PM
#5
Posted 11 December 2014 - 09:09 PM
The member formerly known as Skipjack
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Posted 11 December 2014 - 09:40 PM
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Fritz says you can differentiate fusiforme from collis by the breast. collis is naked, fusiforme is scaled. These look to have naked breasts, but I can't tell for sure. (I do seem to recall a brass pole at the collecting site, though...) Also per el presidente, collis appears to have a broad, rounded snout while fusiforme's is narrow and pointed. I don't have any aerial shots of these guys, but there is one group shot where we kind of look down on one of the fish; he appears round and broad to me...
"No thanks, a third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite..."
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Posted 11 December 2014 - 10:07 PM
Gerald Pottern
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Hangin' on the Neuse
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Posted 13 December 2014 - 04:46 PM
#9
Posted 14 December 2014 - 12:20 PM
"No thanks, a third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite..."
#10
Posted 16 December 2014 - 03:27 PM
Dustin Smith
At the convergence of the Broad, Saluda and Congaree
Lexington, SC
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