Spring Pygmy Sunfish

Elassoma alabamae

About This Fish

This federally threatened species was historically known from three sites in the middle Tennessee River Drainage, but is now restricted to a single spring-fed creek system. As the common name implies, Spring Pygmy Sunfish require cool groundwater and have a maximum size of just over one inch. They have a lifespan of only one year and are vulnerable to random changes in the environment.

Centrarchidae >

Elassoma

Alabama (AL)

Wheeler Lake – 06030002, Pickwick Lake – 06030005

Literature

Sandel, M., F.C. Rohde, and P.M. Harris. 2014. Interspecific relationships and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in pygmy sunfishes (Centrarchidae: Elassoma). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution. 77:166-176. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790314001468

Sandel, M. 2012. Evolutionary relationships and historical biogeography of pygmy sunfishes (Percomorphacea: Elassoma). The University of Alabama. https://search.proquest.com/openview/bde98bb068ef515f84db72ed4b1b5af6/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Sandel, M. 2011. Evolutionary relationships, phylogeography, and conservation genetics of Elassomatidae. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. https://search.proquest.com/openview/bde98bb068ef515f84db72ed4b1b5af6/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Conway, K.W., and R.L. Mayden. 2006. Threatened fishes of the world: Elassoma alabamae Mayden, 1993 (Elassomatidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes. 75(2):195-196. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10641-005-0004-y?LI=true

Quattro, J.M., W.J. Jones, J.M. Grady, and F.C. Rohde. 2001. Gene–Gene Concordance and the Phylogenetic Relationships among Rare and Widespread Pygmy Sunfishes (Genus Elassoma). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 18(2):217-226. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790300908844

Quattro, J. M., W.J. Jones, and F.C. Rohde. 2001. Evolutionarily significant units of rare pygmy sunfishes (Genus Elassoma). Copeia. 2001(2):514-520. https://www.asihcopeiaonline.org/doi/abs/10.1643/0045-8511(2001)001[0514:ESUORP]2.0.CO;2

Jones, W.J., and J.M. Quattro. 1999. Phylogenetic affinities of pygmy sunfishes (Elassoma) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Copeia. 470-474. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1447493?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Mayden, R.L. 1993. Elassoma alabamae, a new species of pygmy sunfish endemic to the Tennessee River drainage of Alabama. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History No. 16. https://web.b.ebscohost.com/abstract?direct=true&profile=ehost&scope=site&authtype=crawler&jrnl=01961039&AN=99556908&h=kBoG2XjQwduWna3TGZ21Vktlr3B%2bhaT4%2fACHX9toMtzfAa4X%2b2SU43EspMUEa%2bgXzCrJT2AlWQESWQndmatgEA%3d%3d&crl=c&resultNs=AdminWebAuth&resultLocal=ErrCrlNotAuth&crlhashurl=login.aspx%3fdirect%3dtrue%26profile%3dehost%26scope%3dsite%26authtype%3dcrawler%26jrnl%3d01961039%26AN%3d99556908

Spring Pygmy Sunfish

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