I am new to catching darters and needed some help with an ID. I caught three of these darters in a riffle area in Elk Horn Creek in Central Kentucky. sorry that the picture isn't great, Im trying to get another one
type of darter?
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, Jul 06 2009 12:06 PM
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Posted 06 July 2009 - 12:07 PM
sorry here is the photo
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Posted 06 July 2009 - 12:15 PM
Looks like a female Etheostoma baileyi Emerald Darter.
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Posted 06 July 2009 - 01:51 PM
What part of Elkhorn? Closer to Lex, Gtown, or Frankfort? I wouldn't expect to see an Emerald in Elkhorn, though it does look like one
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Posted 06 July 2009 - 02:17 PM
I found it close to Frankfurt once the forks come together. At the Sullivan WMA
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Posted 06 July 2009 - 02:27 PM
That's pretty darn greenside-ey to me.
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Posted 06 July 2009 - 02:30 PM
That's pretty darn greenside-ey to me.
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More I look at it Todd, it does look rather greenside-ish. I always overlook the common ones when unidentified darters come from the darter-rich Kentucky/Tennessee.
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Posted 06 July 2009 - 03:34 PM
I'll follow m'man Todd's lead, the darter looks like a sub-adult greenside.
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Posted 06 July 2009 - 07:19 PM
From that area, I would be Greenside too. The closest Emerald to the Lexington area would be in the red river gorge.
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Posted 22 July 2009 - 10:07 PM
I may be wrong, but it looks a whole lot like a tessallated darter. Im not sure if there range goes that far west, but that's what I would say.
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Posted 25 July 2009 - 12:08 AM
Tesselateds are not found any where near that location. It appears to be a greenside darter to me as well.
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Posted 28 July 2009 - 02:28 PM
Definitely greenside, that's about all you find in Elkhorn near Frankfort. Maybe the odd fantail or rainbow, but the time I was down there at the waterfall near the church on 421, all I found was greensides, lots of them.
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