Fundulidae

Stippled studfish

Fundulus bifax

Near Threatened Fundulid Fish of North American Waters

• Temperate
• Lower river
• Northern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Freshwater fish
• North America
• West Asia
• Small
• Temperate fish

The stippled studfish (Fundulus bifax) is a small freshwater fish which is endemic to the Tallapoosa River system in Georgia and Alabama, USA; and Sofkahatchee Creek (lower Coosa River system) in Alabama. It belongs to the genus Fundulus in the killifish and topminnow family, Fundulidae. It has been evaluated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as "near threatened" and has not been recorded in Georgia since 1990.