Okaloosa Darter

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Okaloosa darter (scientific name: Etheostoma okaloosae) is a fish indigenous to fresh-water streams and tributary systems in Okaloosa and Walton counties in northwest Florida. It is a small and elongated fish, less than 50 millimeters in length. Because of extensive habitat improvement and efforts by the Jackson Guard at Eglin Air Force Base, the US Fish & Wildlife Service recommended that the fish be reclassified from endangered to threatened status in 2007. All known habitats of the fish (tributaries of Rocky, Toms and Boggy Bayou) are presently being impacted by commercial development and / or road construction.