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Teleostei (teleosts) > Perciformes/Percoidei (Perchs) > Percidae (Perches) > Etheostomatinae
Etymology: Etheostoma: Greek, etheo = to strain + Greek, stoma = mouth; Rafinesque said "various mouths", but Jordan and Evermann suggest the name might have been intended as "Heterostoma (Ref. 45335); coosae: Named after the Coosa River (Ref. 10294).
More on author: Fowler.

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Freshwater; benthopelagic. Temperate; 36°N - 32°N

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North America: known only from the Coosa River system in Georgia, Alabama and southeastern Tennessee, USA.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 7.2 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 5723); common length : 4.1 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 3295); common length :3.65 cm SL (female); max. reported age: 3.00 years (Ref. 3295)

Inhabits rocky pools and adjacent riffles of creeks and small to medium rivers (Ref. 5723); also found in streams (Ref. 5723). Feeds on midge and blackfly larvae, supplemented with cladocera, copepods, mayfly nymphs, and caddisfly larvae (Ref. 10294).

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Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 1991. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 432 p. (Ref. 5723)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 126983)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 08 December 2008

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: of no interest

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Etheostoma coosae (Fowler, 1945)