Conchos Darter

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The Conchos darter (Etheostoma australe) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a darter from the subfamily Etheostomatinae, part of the family Percidae, which also contains the perches, ruffes and pikeperches. It is endemic to the Conchos River system in northern Mexico, where it is known as dardo de conchos. This species can reach a length of 5.5 cm (2.2 in). It occurs in clear water in areas of shallow, rocky riffles and pools where the bed consists of gravel, sand and silt. It can be found as deep as 1 metre (3.3 ft) where the current may vary from slight to strong. The Conchos darter feeds on the bottom of the streams it occurs in on aquatic insect larvae. It is thought that it spawns from late February until June, and it is able to survive water temperatures as high as 30 °C (86 °F) during the summer. The Conchos darter was first formally described in 1889 by the American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan (1851–1931) with the type locality given as the Río Chihuahua in Mexico.

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Identity & source status

Scientific name

Etheostoma australe Jordan, 1889

Name authority

Jordan, 1889

Common name

Conchos Darter

Rank

species

Accepted status

accepted

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Teleostei

Order

Perciformes

Family

Percidae

Genus

Etheostoma

Extinction status

Not supplied by this source

Source habitat flags: Marine: no · Freshwater: yes · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
2. kingdomAnimalia
3. phylumChordata
4. subphylumVertebrata
5. infraphylumGnathostomata
6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
7. gigaclassActinopterygii
8. superclassActinopteri
9. classTeleostei
10. orderPerciformes
11. suborderPercoidei
12. familyPercidae Rafinesque, 1815
13. subfamilyEtheostomatinae Agassiz, 1850
14. genusEtheostoma Rafinesque, 1819
15. speciesEtheostoma australe Jordan, 1889

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Etheostoma. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

Browse 198 records assigned to Percidae.

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

1. Jordan, D. S. (1889). Descriptions of fourteen species of fresh-water fishes collected by the U. S. Fish Commission in the summer of 1888. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, v. 11 (no. 723): 351–362, Pls. 43–45. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.11-723.351 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:3BL26. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.