Johnny Darter | 水產百科網

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Whats In a Name? Johnny darter:

Etheostoma (ee-thee-os´-toe-mah) taken from etheo, which means "to filter" and from stoma, which means "mouth" in Greek nigrum (nie´-grum) meaning "black" in Latin

Where Do They Live? The Johnny darter is the most common darter in the state. It lives in most of our lakes, streams, and rivers from the Boundary Waters to the southern prairie. Johnny darters are among the first fishes to move into new aquatic habitats or to recolonize a stream after a catastrophe. They prefer clear water with sandy or gravely bottoms and slow or still waters, but they do very well in moderately turbid (cloudy), moving water. They seem to tolerate many kinds of water pollution, more so then other darters species. They often found living with the American brook lamprey, white suckers, bigmouth shiners, central stonerollers, blacknose dace, and other specie...