AUTHORITIES 



Robert W. Britt (Recovery Team Leader) 

 Chief, Natural Resources Division 

 Directorate of Engineering 

 Elgin Air Force Base, FL 32542 



Edward Crittenden (Recovery Team)' 

 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

 Great Smoky National Park 

 Gatlinburg, TN 37738 



Maurice F. Mettee, Jr. (Recovery Team) 

 Geological Survey of Alabama 

 P.O. Drawer 

 University, AL 35486 



Royal D. Suttkus 

 Museum of Natural History 

 Tulane University 

 Belle Chasse, Louisiana 



Ralph W. Yerger (Recovery Team) 

 Department of Biological Sciences 

 Florida State University 

 Tallahassee, FL 32306 



Norman Young (Recovery Team) 

 Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish 



Commission 

 P.O. Box 128 

 DeFuniak Springs, FL 32433 



PREPARERS COMMENTS 



Since all but 10% of the watershed area is 

 under government ownership in the Eglin Air 

 Force Base, control of many potentially detri- 

 mental factors is facilitated. Development of the 

 area is kept to a minimum. 



Mettee, M. F. Jr. 1970. A survey of the fishes of 

 the Choctawhatchee Bay drainage in Alabama 

 and Florida. M.S. Thesis. Univ of Alabama. 

 93 pp. 



. 1976. Etheostoma okaloosae account. In 



H. O. Hillestad, D. B. Means, and W. H. Baker, 

 eds. Endangered and threatened vertebrates of 

 the southeastern United States. Tall Timbers 

 Res. Stn.,Misc. Pub. 4. 



Mettee, M. F., Jr. and E. Crittenden. 1977. A 

 study on the distribution o{ Etheostoma oka- 

 loosa (Fowler) and Etheostoma edwini 

 (Hubbs and Cannon) in swift and rocky 

 creeks, Okaloosa and Walton Counties, Flor- 

 ida, during 1975-1976. Report to U.S. Fish 

 Wildl. Serv. 130 pp. 



Mettee M. F., Jr., R. W. Yerger, and E. Crittenden. 

 1976. A status report on the Okaloosa darter 

 in northwest Florida. Proc. S.E. Fishes Counc. 

 1:1-3. 



ODRT (Okaloosa Darter Recovery Team). 1977. 

 Recovery plan for the Okaloosa darter. Draft. 

 U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv., Office of Endangered 

 Species 19 pp. 



U.S. Department of the Interior. 1973. Threatened 

 wildlife of the United States. Compiled by the 

 Office of Endangered Species and Interna- 

 tional Activities, Bur. Sports Fish, Wildl. 

 Resour. Publ. 1 14. U.S. Govt. Printing Office. 

 Washington, D.C. 289 pp. 



Yerger, R. W. 1979. Okaloosa darter. Pages 2-4 in 

 C. R. Gilbert, ed. Rare and endangered biota 

 of Florida, Vol 4, Fishes. Univ. Presses of 

 Florida, Gainesville. 



LITERATURE CITED /SELECTED 

 REFERENCES 



Collette, B. B. and R. W. Yerger. 1962. The 

 American percid fishes of the subgenus 

 Villora. Tulane Stud. Zool. 9(4):213-230. 



Crittenden, E. 1974. Status report on the Okaloosa 

 darter, an endangered native fish. U.S. Fish 

 Wildl. Serv. Div. Tech. Assist. Mimeo. Rep 

 20 pp. 



Fowler, H. W. 1941. A collection of freshwater 

 fishes obtained in Florida 1939-1940, by 

 Francis Harper. Proc. Acad. Natur. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia. 92:227-244. 



ACCOUNT PREPARED/UPDATED BY: 



National Fish and Wildlife Laboratory 

 412 N.E. 16th Avenue, Room 250 

 Gainesville, FL 32601 



