Bankhead darter

Percina sipsi

Five Centimeters Percid Fish

Bankhead darter is a freshwater fish from North America. It inhabits freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 5 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Perches and Allies
Family: Percidae
Genus: Percina
Maximum length: 5 cm
Water: Freshwater
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: North America: United States of America. Percina sipsi is known only from the Sipsey Fork of the Black Warrior River in the Bankhead National Forest in northwestern Alabama. It occurs in Borden Creek in Lawrence County, and Brushy Creek, Caney Creek, and Sipsey Fork (recorded as West Fork Sipsey River on some maps) in Winston County. While the current known range of P. sipsi is very limited and confined downstream by Lewis Smith Reservoir, historically it is possible that the species ranged farther downstream in the Sipsey Fork and conceivably in the Locust and Mulberry forks of the Black Warrior River, which are all located in the Cumberland Plateau physiographic province. Riverine habitat in the lower reaches of the Sipsey Fork was destroyed in 1960 by the Alabama Power Company impoundme
Conservation status: VUVulnerable

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