Percidae

Muscadine Darter

Percina smithvanizi

Six Point Three Centimeters Percid Fish from North American Waters

• Temperate
• Upper river
• Northern Hemisphere
• Restricted distribution
• Freshwater fish
• North America
• West Asia
• Elongated
• Small
• Temperate fish

The muscadine darter (Percina smithvanizi) is a small freshwater species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a darter from the subfamily Etheostomatinae, part of the family Percidae, which also contains the perches, ruffes and pikeperches. It is found in streams above the Fall Line in the Tallapoosa River system in eastern Alabama and western Georgia. It prefers gravel runs and riffles of small to medium-sized rivers.