Pomme de Terre Rainbow Darter Images
The Pomme de Terre was named
for a prairie turnip – a potato like tuber that grows in the area. Pomme
de Terre is French for potato. It literally means “apple of the earth”
or “ground apple” in French.
Photos by Konrad Schmidt
Quoting Konrad:
Mark Otnes and I had been corresponding by email for a couple of years. He had
found a population of rainbow darters in the Pomme de Terre River where the
species had never been reported. We finally met at the site this year.
Specimens were collected to photograph, and also tissue for DNA research and museum specimens. Associated species observed or collected at the site include: banded killifish, largemouth bass, bluegill, green sunfish, brook stickleback, tadpole madtom, yellow bullhead, golden shiner, common shiner, mimic shiner, blacknose shiner, blackchin shiner, pugnose shiner, yellow perch, johnny darter, Iowa darter, least darter and logperch. Pugnose shiners and least darters are special concern species in Minnesota.
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