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Crystallaria

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Crystallaria

Rank
  
Genus

Family
  
Percidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Perciformes

Lower classifications
  
Crystal darter, Diamond darter

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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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Species

Currently, two species in this genus are recognized:

  • Crystallaria asprella D. S. Jordan, 1878 (Crystal darter)
  • Crystallaria cincotta S. A. Welsh & R. M. Wood, 2008 (Diamond darter)
  • References

    Crystallaria Wikipedia