acuticeps, Etheostoma (Nothonotus) Bailey [R. M.] 1959:6, Pl. 1 [Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan No. 603; ref. 11977] South Fork of Holston River, about 0.5 miles above South Holston Dam, Sullivan County, Tennessee, U.S.A., elevation 1490 feet. Holotype: UMMZ 159014. Paratypes: UMMZ 157585 (2), 159013 (3). Type catalog: Collette & Knapp 1967:22 [ref. 20211]. •Valid as Etheostoma acuticeps Bailey 1959 -- (Lee et al. 1980:622 [ref. 22416], Kuehne & Barbour 1983:109 [ref. 38055], Page 1983:101 [ref. 22189], Burkhead & Jenkins 1991:378 [ref. 21804], Page & Burr 1991:307 [ref. 18983], Etnier & Starnes 1993:458 [ref. 22809], Jenkins & Burkhead 1994:866 [ref. 21581], Wood 1996:300 [ref. 22394], Nelson et al. 2004:132 [ref. 27807], Scharpf 2008:19 [ref. 30399], Page & Burr 2011:568 [ref. 31215], Page et al. 2013:136 [ref. 32708], Stephens et al. 2014:544 [ref. 33552]). Current status: Valid as Etheostoma acuticeps Bailey 1959. Percidae: Etheostomatinae. Distribution: North America: Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia (U.S.A.). Habitat: freshwater.