Western and Central Tennessee March 2010
#1 Guest_Uland_*
Posted 15 April 2010 - 09:20 AM
Small trib of the Buffalo River
Etheostoma blennius female:
Etheostoma blennius male:
Etheostoma stigmaeum male:
(actually not sure if these are still stigmaeum)
Etheostoma tennesseense male:
Etheostoma tennesseense female:
Notropis telescopus:
I'll get more photos up later
#4 Guest_Uland_*
Posted 15 April 2010 - 10:05 AM
Fritz, I have not made any changes this year and this trip was unusual in that every day was rainy or drizzly and overcast while taking photos. I've found overcast conditions make for pretty good photos as the fins seem to be highlighted but at the same time I've found it very difficult to adjust the camera to compensate for the squirmy fishes. Many of my photos are blurry for this reason but I'll take what I can get when in the company of such pretty fish.
Next morning Blake and I stopped a small trib of a large creek not far from the Tennessee River:
Etheostoma flavum male:
Etheostoma flavum female:
#6 Guest_fundulus_*
Posted 15 April 2010 - 10:34 AM
Probably. Your blenny darter pics are the most informative I've seen of that species, they're definitely a species in need of more research. And who doesn't like telescope shiners?!?Awe shucks...Is the fish I have labeled Etheostoma tennesseense actually Etheostoma planasaxatile?
#9 Guest_Uland_*
Posted 15 April 2010 - 01:57 PM
Blake and I then went to the Hatchie river and found it was very high and sampled a tiny, unnamed trib in hopes of finding E. zonistium and struck out in finding adults for photos. We did see a ton of E. parvipinne but decided not to spend the time with photos. We then moved on to the forked deer and found below fishes:
Etheostoma cervus male:
Etheostoma cervus female:
This was a pretty quick stop and we then moved onto the Obion River system.
Etheostoma pyrrhogaster male:
Etheostoma pyrrhogaster female:
#12 Guest_farmertodd_*
Posted 15 April 2010 - 02:52 PM
Thanks Todd. I guess the most recent book isn't "recent enough"?
Some of it has been published, some of it hasn't (like your Doration sp cf stimaeum "clown darter" there). To do a revision would be serious work, and it's probably best put off until at least AFS catches up to the literature we have today in darterology. Once they decide if they're going to take the subgeneric elevations and new descriptions, then it'd be pretty sweet to get a new Handbook of Darters, esp with all these great photos that are surfacing. Then we won't have to wait around until that Cyrpinid mess has settled out.
Todd
#13 Guest_Uland_*
Posted 15 April 2010 - 07:58 PM
Etheostoma barrenense male:
Etheostoma barrenense female:
Etheostoma bellum male:
Etheostoma bellum female:
link
#14 Guest_Uland_*
Posted 15 April 2010 - 08:09 PM
Etheostoma etnieri male:
Etheostoma etnieri female:
We stopped at a nearby location and found a few more fish:
Cyprinella galactura:
We caught Lamprey at a few locations but I'll post just one here:
Lampetra aepyptera:
#15 Guest_Uland_*
Posted 15 April 2010 - 08:17 PM
Etheostoma luteovinctum male:
Etheostoma luteovinctum female:
This trip despite the weather was really fantastic. I feel lucky to have not only seen so many fish for the first time but also able to take the time to photograph them.
Thanks for the great time Blake and thanks for your hospitality Nathan!
#16 Guest_blakemarkwell_*
Posted 15 April 2010 - 09:25 PM
Campostoma oligolepis (Robertson County, TN)
Clinostomus funduloides (Lawrence County, TN)
Etheostoma blennius (Lewis County, TN)
Etheostoma flavum (Robertson County, TN)
Etheostoma stigmaeum (Lewis County, TN)
#17 Guest_natureman187_*
Posted 15 April 2010 - 11:26 PM
...plus the E. caeruleum others have mentioned that lack the typical anal fin coloration.
This may not be from the E. caeruleum complex at all. If that's in proximity from where I think it is in ole Sumner, I bet that's Etheostoma kantuckeense.
E. caeruleum from that area have the typical characteristics.
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