FB-57399 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=57399 Animalia Chordata Elasmobranchii Myliobatiformes Dasyatidae Pateobatis Pateobatis uarnacoides (Bleeker, 1852) Spring pygmy sunfish 2000-10-20 2024-08-16 Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.)0 Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of November 1999. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in November 1999. (Ref. 33021) Anonymous0 Fish collection database of the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution). Smithsonian Institution-Division of Fishes. (Ref. 38732) Gilbert, C.R.0 Family Elassomatidae Jordan 1877. Pygmy sunfishes. Calif. Acad. Sci. Annotated Checklists of Fishes (33):5. (Ref. 51664) Nelson, J.S., E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea and J.D. Williams0 Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 29, Bethesda, Maryland. ix, 386 p. + 1 CD. (Ref. 52299) Conway, K.W. and R.L. Mayden0 Threatened fishes of the world: <i>Elassoma alabamae</i> Mayden, 1993 (Elassomatidae). Environ. Biol. Fishes 75(2):195-196. (Ref. 58011) Boschung, H.T. and R.L. Mayden0 Fishes of Alabama. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 736 p. (Ref. 58014) Dart, D.P. and G.R. Hooper0 Spring pygmy sunfish population monitoring, 1990-1991. Report prepared for Keith Guyse, Endangered Species Coordinator, Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Montgomery, Alabama. 11 p. (unpublished). (Ref. 58015) Mettee, M.F. Jr. and J.S. Ramsey0 Spring pygmy sunfish, <i>Elassoma</i> sp. p. 4-5. In R.H. Mount (ed.) Vertebrate animals of Alabama in need of special attention. Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. 124 p. (Ref. 58016) Mettee, M.F. and C. Scharpf0 Reproductive behavior, embryology, and larval development of four species of pygmy sunfish. http://www.nanfa.org/articles/elassoma.shtml. Accessed 23/03/07. (paper reprinted from American Currents). (Ref. 58020) Jelks, H.L., S.J. Walsh, N.M. Burkhead, S. Contreras-Balderas, E. Díaz-Pardo, D.A. Hendrickson, J. Lyons, N.E. Mandrak, F. McCormick, J.S. Nelson, S.P. Platania, B.A. Porter, C.B. Renaud, J.J. Schmitter-Soto, E.B. Taylor and M.L. Warren Jr.0 Conservation status of imperiled North American freshwater and diadromous fishes. Fisheries 33(8):372-407. (Ref. 81264) Blumer, L.S.0 A bibliography and categorization of bony fishes exhibiting parental care. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 76:1-22. (Ref. 93243) Dean, E.M., A.R. Cooper, L. Wang, W. Daniel, S. David, C. Ernzen, K.B. Gido, E Hale, T.J. Haxton, W. Kelso, N. Leonard, C. Lido, J. Margraf, M. Porter, C. Pennock, D. Propst, J. Ross, M.D. Staudinger, G. Whelan and D.M. Infante0 The North American Freshwater Migratory Fish Database (NAFMFD): Characterizing the migratory life histories of freshwater fishes of Canada, the United States of Mexico. J. Biogeography 49:1193-1203. (Ref. 126106) FB-GeneralDescr-57438 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 2000-10-26 00:00:00 2025-12-18 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=57438 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Found on sand, clay, mud and/or limestone substrate commonly associated with rooted, submerged vegetation (Ref. 58011). Oviparous, eggs are deposited in aquatic vegetation, preferably on strands of Ceratophyllum sp. when available (Ref. 58020). Gilbert, C.R. 2004 Family Elassomatidae Jordan 1877. Pygmy sunfishes. Calif. Acad. Sci. Annotated Checklists of Fishes (33):5. (Ref. 51664) FB-DiagnosticDescr-57438 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 2007-03-23 00:00:00 2007-03-28 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=57438 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats Transverse scale rows: 10-13. Distinguished from all other family members by having 3 or less dorsal spines (versus 7 or more), 6-7 broad dark bars along flanks (versus 7 or more), 16-18 peduncle scale rows (versus 18-24). Conway, K.W. and R.L. Mayden 2006 Threatened fishes of the world: <i>Elassoma alabamae</i> Mayden, 1993 (Elassomatidae). Environ. Biol. Fishes 75(2):195-196. (Ref. 58011) FB-Morphology-57438 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 2007-03-23 00:00:00 2007-03-28 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=57438 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat Dorsal spines (total): 1 - 3; Dorsal soft rays (total): 8 - 13; Anal spines: 1 - 3; Analsoft rays: 5 - 8 Conway, K.W. and R.L. Mayden 2006 Threatened fishes of the world: <i>Elassoma alabamae</i> Mayden, 1993 (Elassomatidae). Environ. Biol. Fishes 75(2):195-196. (Ref. 58011) FB-Distribution-57438 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 2000-10-26 00:00:00 2007-03-23 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=57438 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution North America: endemic to Moss Spring and (historically) adjacent springs in the middle Tennessee River drainage in Alabama, U.S.A. Gilbert, C.R. 2004 Family Elassomatidae Jordan 1877. Pygmy sunfishes. Calif. Acad. Sci. Annotated Checklists of Fishes (33):5. (Ref. 51664) FB-LifeCycle-57438 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 2000-10-26 00:00:00 2025-12-18 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org//Reproduction/FishReproSummary.php?ID=57438&StockCode=46980 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Migration Eggs are deposited in aquatic vegetation, preferably on strands of Ceratophyllum sp. when available (Ref. 58020). Mettee, M.F. and C. Scharpf 1998 Reproductive behavior, embryology, and larval development of four species of pygmy sunfish. http://www.nanfa.org/articles/elassoma.shtml. Accessed 23/03/07. (paper reprinted from American Currents). (Ref. 58020) FB-TrophicStrategy-57438 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 2007-03-22 00:00:00 2007-03-22 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public alabamae http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#TrophicStrategy Found on sand, clay, mud and/or limestone substrate commonly associated with rooted, submerged vegetation like Ceratophyllum, Myriophyllum, Uticularia, and Elodea (Ref. 58011). FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-57438 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 2000-10-26 00:00:00 2025-12-18 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=57438 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats benthopelagic; non-migratory (Ref. 126106); freshwater Dean, E.M., A.R. Cooper, L. Wang, W. Daniel, S. David, C. Ernzen, K.B. Gido, E Hale, T.J. Haxton, W. Kelso, N. Leonard, C. Lido, J. Margraf, M. Porter, C. Pennock, D. Propst, J. Ross, M.D. Staudinger, G. Whelan and D.M. Infante 2022 The North American Freshwater Migratory Fish Database (NAFMFD): Characterizing the migratory life histories of freshwater fishes of Canada, the United States of Mexico. J. Biogeography 49:1193-1203. (Ref. 126106)