Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Perciformes/Percoidei

Family: Percidae

Genus: Ammocrypta

Species: Ammocrypta beanii Jordan, 1877

Climate Zone

Location

• North America: occurs only in the Mississippi River and western Gulf drainages in western Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, and in eastern Louisiana as far east as the Mobile Bay drainage in the USA.

Biology

Inhabits sandy runs of creeks and small to medium rivers (Ref. 5723, 10294).

Habitat

demersal

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Threat to Humans

Harmless