Description:
The Warrior Darter is patchily distributed in the upper Black Warrior River system in the Mobile Basin in central Alabama. Like other Snubnose darters, they have a blunt snout, and they reside in the transition zone from pools to riffles. Breeding males have a wide range of colors including green, blue, red, and yellow.
Literature:
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- 2007
- Khudamrongsawat, J., and B.R. Kuhajda. 2007. Life history of the Warrior Darter (Etheostoma bellator) and comparison with the endangered Vermilion Darter (Etheostoma chermocki). Journal of Freshwater Ecology 22:241-248.
- Khudamrongsawat, J. 2007. Comparative study of life history and population structure of the endangered Vermilion Darter (Etheostoma chermocki) and its sister species, the Warrior Darter (E. bellator). Unpubl. Ph.D. diss., University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
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