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BlacksideDarter Common Name:
Blackside Darter
 
 
Scientific Name: Percina maculata

 

Length or Size: Up to 4 inches.

 

Comment: Adult blackside darters live mostly on rocky riffles to pebbly and sandy runs of small to large rivers. Greenish-yellow with 7 oblong dark splotches more or less connected along the sides and irregularly mottled on the back.