Endangered
Noturus fasciatus
Noturus fasciatus
Noturus fasciatus (saddled madtom) is a rare freshwater fish native to the U.S.
The ray-finned fish
It was first described as a species separate from Noturus crypticus in 2005.
Range and habitat
The saddled madtom is found in the Duck River system and two minor tributaries of the Tennessee River in the western part of Tennessee and has not yet been found in other streams or states. It is believed that this species can be found in neighboring streams and river systems but until proper research is conducted, it remains a theory. Noturus fasciatus (saddled madtom) is a rare freshwater fish native to the U.S. State of Tennessee.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
A quantitative diet analysis has not yet been performed on the saddled madtom. Even so, using diet information of other species that are closely related to, even so closely related that they are known to interbreed with each other, suggest that they are invertivores, feeding mostly on insects, such as caddis, may, and stone fly larva.
The saddled madtom is a small species, that allows it to be prey to larger species such as: rock, small mouth, and largemouth bass. Other species that may prey on this species are larger, piscivorous fish, brown trout being a good example. The saddled madtom has not been researched enough to determine things such as when, where and how often it breeds, how long it takes to reach sexual maturity, or the life span of the species.
In crisis
Noturus fasciatus 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 Noturus fasciatus, Wikidata item Q3752154. 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.
