but it is believed that the species' life history is similar to other snubnose darter species, in which eggs hatch six to eight days after being deposited and fish become reproductively mature at one ...

(WBOY) — This fish is so rare it was ... require clean water to lay their eggs. Small population size and population isolation are also issues. The diamond darter was declared an endangered ...

“I’m so glad the Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to ... The male will clean the eggs and guard them from predators until they hatch. The Barrens darter’s headwater streams are facing the highest ...

That beast—which he also called “the bane of my existence, the nemesis of my golden years, the bold perverter of the Endangered Species Act”—was none other than the snail darter, a fish no ...