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Crystal darters
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Crystal darters

Crystallaria

Crystallaria is a genus of darters in the family Percidae found in the Mississippi River basin from Ohio to Minnesota and in southern Mississippi, northern Louisiana, and southeastern Oklahoma, and on the Gulf Slope of Escambia, Mobile Bay, and the Pearl River drainages. They have now been extirpated from Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Crystal Darter

speciesCrystallaria asprella

Diamond Darter

speciesCrystallaria cincotta

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 87721.