Lipstick darter

The Lipstick darter lives in the benthopelagic, freshwater environment.

“The lipstick darter is a good ambassador because it’s very pretty,” she said. “I like the Tallapoosa Shiner, the Stippled studfish … and the Tallapoosa Darter is very beautiful. Those are four endemics that I can think of right off the bat. More

lipstick darter is distinguishable from other species in the subgenus Nothonotus by the absence of dark horizontal lines between scale rows, by lack of dark mottling along the sides, and by absence of a broad red band in More

Common names

lipstick darter in English

Order : Perciformes
Family : Percidae
Genus : Etheostoma
Species : Etheostoma chuckwachatte
Authority : Mayden & Wood, 1993