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

Layman & Mayden Morphological Diversity and Phylogenetics of the Darter subgenus Doration (Percidae: Etheostoma) 61TABLE 8. DORSAL FIN SPINE AND SOFT RAY COUNTS IN SPECIES OF DORATION. Values for holotypes are in boldface.Doral fin spines9 10 11 12 13 14 n Mean SDEtheostoma stigmaeumMobile Basin 1 41 304 132 7 485 11.2 0.62Bear Cr. (Tennessee R.) 1 32 21 54 11.4 0.52Eastern Gulf coast systems 3 50 29 82 11.3 0.54Central Gulf Coast systems 10 106 49 165 11.2 0.55Lower Miss. Embayment, eastern tributaries 22 67 10 99 10.9 0.56Upper Miss. Embayment, eastern tributaries 6 36 15 57 11.2 0.59Upper Miss. Embayment, western tributaries 1 25 68 38 132 11.1 0.71Lower Miss. Embayment, western tributaries 24 92 33 2 151 11.1 0.65Etheostoma jessiaeLower and middle Tennessee R. 1 52 68 121 12.6 0.52Little Bear Cr. 2 20 27 49 12.5 0.58Upper Tennessee R. (excluding Clinch R.) 2 16 111 89 3 221 12.3 0.67Clinch R. downstream of Norris Dam 5 55 64 5 129 12.5 0.64Clinch/Powell R. upstream of Norris Dam 4 28 23 55 12.3 0.62Etheostoma meadiaeUpper Powell River 7 29 13 49 12.1 0.63Upper Clinch River 1 26 88 16 1 132 11.9 0.61Etheostoma akatulo 10 93 92 8 203 11.5 0.66Etheostoma obama 1 6 83 83 12 185 12.5 0.69Etheostoma goreMiddle Cumberland R. 34 71 3 1 109 11.7 0.56Lower Cumberland R. 1 30 52 2 1 86 11.7 0.60Etheostoma jimmycarter 8 94 92 15 209 12.5 0.69Etheostoma teddyrooseveltArkansas R. 1 42 53 7 103 11.6 0.62Upper White R. 1 34 29 5 69 11.6 0.65Etheostoma clinton 21 59 23 1 104 11.0 0.68