Spring pygmy sunfish

Elassoma alabamae

Critically Endangered Elassomatid Fish of North American Waters

Spring pygmy sunfish is a freshwater fish of North America. The species occupies freshwater habitats. Its body is fusiform body.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Freshwater Sunfishes and Allies
Family: Elassomatidae
Genus: Elassoma
Water: Freshwater
Body shape: fusiform
Distribution: North America: endemic to Moss Spring and (historically) adjacent springs in the middle Tennessee River drainage in Alabama, U.S.A.
Conservation status: CRCritically Endangered

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