While surveying fishes in Georgia's Flint River, Byron and Mary Freeman noticed that a certain darter fish had a striking orange color in its fins--much different than the Blackbanded darter that is prominent in the southwest Georgia River. The University of Georgia researchers had indeed come across a new species: the Halloween darter or Percina crypta.......More
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
New Fish Species Discovered in Flint River by UGA
Posted by Georgia Front Page.com at 7:40 AM
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