Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Perciformes/Percoidei

Family: Percidae

Genus: Etheostoma

Species: Etheostoma exile (Girard, 1859)

Climate Zone

Location

• North America: St. Lawrence-Great Lakes, Hudson Bay and Mississippi River basins from southern Quebec to northern Alberta in Canada, and south to Ohio, Illinois and Colorado in the USA.

Biology

Inhabit vegetated lakes, pools of headwaters, creeks and small to medium rivers (Ref. 5723). Eggs are found attached to the substrate unguarded (Ref. 7043).

Habitat

benthopelagic

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Threat to Humans

Harmless