Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Perciformes/Percoidei

Family: Percidae

Genus: Etheostoma

Species: Etheostoma cragini Gilbert, 1885

Climate Zone

Location

• North America: known only from the Arkansas River drainage in southwestern Missouri, northwestern Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado, USA.

Biology

Usually occurs over mud in spring-fed vegetated headwaters and creeks.

Habitat

benthopelagic

Conservation Status

Near Threatened

Threat to Humans

Harmless