Channel Darter

Percina copelandi

About This Fish

The Channel Darter has a disjunct distribution in the Mississippi and St Lawrence-Great Lakes drainages, including the Tennessee and Cumberland river drainages. They live over gravel substrate of runs and riffles in small to medium rivers. While most darters are found on stream bottoms, members of the genus Percina tend to be found higher in the water column because they retain a swim bladder.

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Percina

Tennessee (TN), Virginia (VA), Kentucky (KY)

South Fork Cumberland – 05130104, Nolichucky – 06010108, Watts Bar Lake – 06010201, Upper Clinch, Tennessee, Virginia – 06010205, Powell – 06010206, Lower Clinch – 06010207, Kentucky Lake – 06040005

Literature

Boucher, J., P. Bérubé, and R. Cloutier. 2009. Comparison of the Channel Darter (Percina copelandi) summer habitat in two rivers from eastern Canada. Journal of Freshwater Ecology. 24:19-28. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02705060.2009.9664261

Reid, S.M., and N.E. Mandrak. 2008. Historical changes in the distribution of threatened channel darter (Percina copelandi) in Lake Erie with general observations on the beach fish assemblage. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 34(2):324-333. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0380133008700261

Reid, S.M. 2005. River Redhorse (Moxostoma carinatum) and Channel Darter (Percina copelandi) Populations along the Trent-Severn Waterway. Parks Research Forum of Ontario Proceedings. 221-223. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Scott_Reid5/publication/278677763_Distribution_and_status_of_river_redhorse_Moxostoma_carinatum_and_channel_darter_Percina_copelandi_along_the_Trent-Severn_Waterway/links/5582ffb108ae8bf4ba6f866e/Distribution-and-status-of-river-redhorse-Moxostoma-carinatum-and-channel-darter-Percina-copelandi-along-the-Trent-Severn-Waterway.pdf

Reid, S.M., L.M. Carl, and J. Lean. 2005. Influence of riffle characteristics, surficial geology, and natural barriers on the distribution of the channel darter, Percina copelandi, in the Lake Ontario basin. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 72(3):241-249. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Scott_Reid5/publication/226118922_Influence_of_riffle_characteristics_surficial_geology_and_natural_barriers_on_the_distribution_of_the_channel_darter_Percina_copelandiin_the_Lake_Ontario_basin/links/555354d608aeaaff3bf161f3/Influence-of-riffle-characteristics-surficial-geology-and-natural-barriers-on-the-distribution-of-the-channel-darter-Percina-copelandi-in-the-Lake-Ontario-basin.pdf

Reid, S.M. 2004. Age estimates and length distributions of Ontario channel darter (Percina copelandi) populations. Journal of Freshwater Ecology. 19(3):441-444. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02705060.2004.9664917

Schofield, P.J., and S.T. Ross. 2003. Habitat selection of the channel darter, Percina (Cottogaster) copelandi, a surrogate for the imperiled pearl darter, Percina aurora. Journal of Freshwater Ecology. 18(2):249-257. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02705060.2003.9664491

Brown, M.D. 1997. The occurrence of the channel darter (Perciformes: Percidae) in the East Cache Creek system of southwest Oklahoma. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science. 77:127-129). http://ojs.library.okstate.edu/osu/index.php/OAS/article/viewFile/5618/5243

Strange, R.M. 1997. Food items of Channel darters (Percina copelandi) collected from the Ohio River. Journal of freshwater ecology. 12(2):339-340. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02705060.1997.9663541

Suttkus, R.D., B.A. Thompson, and H.L. Bart, Jr. 1994. Two new darters, Percina (Cottogaster), from the southeastern United States, with a review of the subgenus. Occasional Papers Tulane University Museum of Natural History 4. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5769373#page/21/mode/1up

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