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Percidae
Slenderhead darter
Percina phoxocephala
Percid Fish Reaching Nine Point Six Centimeters
Slenderhead darter is known from North America as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Percidae
- Genus
- Percina
- Maximum length
- 9.6 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Distribution
- North America: found only in Mississippi River basin from Ohio to northeastern South Dakota and south to northern Alabama and southern Oklahoma in the USA; and in Lake Winnebago system (in Lake Michigan drainage) in Wisconsin, USA.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

