Endangered
Cherokee darter
Etheostoma scotti
Cherokee darter is a whitish or yellowish fish with green and black spots on the flanks and eight dark saddle-like bars dorsally.
Appearance
The fish is whitish to yellowish with olive green and black spots on the sides that become larger during the breeding season. It is a whitish or yellowish fish with green and black spots on the flanks and eight dark saddle-like bars dorsally.
The male is a maximum of about 5 cm in length.
Range and habitat
The Cherokee darter is endemic to Georgia in the United States, where it is limited to the Etowah River system. The fish can be found in several tributaries of the Etowah River, but few of the populations are large or very healthy. The larger populations can be found in the northern tributaries above Lake Allatoona.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
It has a small range and its habitat is being degraded and fragmented, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being endangered.
Cherokee darter is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Cherokee darter, Wikidata item Q2118110. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
