(Percidae: Etheostoma), with Descriptions of Five New Species

28 Bulletin 30 NOVEMBER 1, 2012ridges on rays 1–3 and weak broken ridges and roundedtubercles on medial-distal portions of rays 3–5. Anal finspines and anterior rays usually with tubercular ridges,giving way to broken ridges and individual rounded tubercleson posterior rays; some specimens with roundedtubercles on all rays. Posterior belly scales occasionallywith weak tubercles, observed on up to 3 midventral scalerows. Winn (1958b) also reported tubercles from the pelvicand anal fins. Tuberculate males have been taken incollections from 10 March (tributary of Russell Creek,Adair County, Kentucky) to 24 May (Little Barren River,Green County, Kentucky).Distribution.— Etheostoma jimmycarter is endemic to theGreen River drainage of Kentucky and Tennessee, occurringmainly in the Highland Rim physiographic province(Fig. 5). It is distributed widely in the upper Barren andupper Green rivers, and is also found in the upper RoughRiver, a tributary of lower Green River (Burr and Warren,1986). Specimens from Rough River have not been examined.Etymology.— The name bluegrass darter refers to therange of the species lying mostly within Kentucky, nicknamedthe “Bluegrass State.” The species epithet is a nounin apposition that honors President Jimmy Carter (Fig.15), the 39 th President of the United States of America,and his environmental leadership and accomplishmentsin the areas of national energy policy and wilderness protection,and his life-long commitment to social justice andbasic human rights.