| Percidae (Perches), subfamily: Etheostomatinae |
| 3.46 cm SL (male/unsexed); 3.41 cm SL (female) |
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benthopelagic; freshwater, |
| North America: United States of America (upper Caddo and upper Ouachita rivers upstream of the Fall Line in the Ouachita Mountains province of Arkansas). |
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Dorsal spines (total): 10-13; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10-13; Anal spines: 2-2; Anal soft rays: 7-10. The breeding male of this species, a member of the subgenus Doration. Is distinguished by: the following characters: spinous dorsal fin with blue-green marginal and submedial bands, red-orange medial band, basal band lacking bright orange pigment; soft dorsal, caudal, and pectoral fins without distinct orange spots on rays; soft dorsal and anal fins with bluegreen in base of fin; face and lower head gray with blue or blue-green on operculum, preoperculum, suborbital bar, lips, and mid-gular region; quadrate lateral blue-green blotches with narrow continuous midlateral band of melanophores running through blotches; blue-green wedge on ventral half of caudal fin base but not developed dorsally. In addition, the frenum is absent; lateral line is incomplete, unpored scales modally, greater than 10 (14); cheek is usually naked; presence of palatine teeth; dorsal fin spines modally 11, soft rays modally 11; anal fin soft rays modally 9; pectoral fin rays modally 13-14; principal caudal fin rays modally 15; caudal peduncle scales modally 16; preoperculomandibular canal pores modally 9 (Ref. 92294). |
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Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. (130435)
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| harmless |
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Type locality, Arkansas, Clark County, Caddo River at AR Hwy 182, 3.2 km N Amity, UAIC 10302.09 (holotype of Etheostoma clinton, breeding male, 3.37 cm SL). Known only from the upper Caddo (upstream of DeGray Reservoir) and upper Ouachita rivers upstream of the Fall Line in the Ouachita Mountains province of Arkansas. In the Ouachita River it occurs upstream of Lake Ouachita in the upper Ouachita and South Fork Ouachita rivers. It may also occur in tributaries of lakes Hamilton and Catherine, which are situated above the Fall Line (Ref. 92294). |
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