Maryland darter

Maryland darter
Conservation status
Extinct (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Percidae
Genus:	Etheostoma
Subgenus:	Etheostoma
Species:	E. sellare
Binomial name
Etheostoma sellare (Radcliffe & Welsh, 1913)

The Maryland darter (Etheostoma sellare) is freshwater fish species that has been found only in Deer Creek, Maryland. It is now a thought to be extinct. It was long known only by two specimens until it was rediscovered in 1962. From 1965 to the 1980s, it was only confined to a single riffle in Deer Creek. The species may have fallen victim to habitat destruction. It was last observed in 1988. While the IUCN has declared the species extinct,^[1] the United States Fish and Wildlife Service has not, and keeps it on the Endangered Species List.^[2]

Notes

1. ^ World Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1996. Etheostoma sellare. 2011 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 2 September 2011. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is listed as extinct.
2. ^ USFWS. Etheostoma sellare Five-year Review. October 2007.

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Etheostoma sellare" in FishBase. September 2011 version.