jessiae, Poecilichthys Jordan [D. S.] & Brayton [A. W.] in Jordan 1878:227 [Manual of the vertebrates of the northern United States (second edition); ref. 2376] Chickamauga River at Ringgold, Georgia, U.S.A. No types known. Type catalog: Collette & Knapp 1967:63 [ref. 20211]. Also appeared in Jordan & Brayton 1878:59 [ref. 2436]. Syntype figured in Collette & Knapp 1967:64, Fig. 4 [ref. 20211]. •Valid as Etheostoma jessiae (Jordan & Brayton 1878) -- (Lee et al. 1980:656 [ref. 22416], Kuehne & Barbour 1983:100 [ref. 38055], Page 1983:80 [ref. 22189], Page & Burr 1991:294 [ref. 18983], Boschung 1992:118 [ref. 23239], Mettee et al. 1996:637 [ref. 25836], Nelson et al. 2004:134 [ref. 27807], Boschung & Mayden 2004:538 [ref. 27995], Layman & Mayden 2009:166 [ref. 30060], Scharpf 2008:27 [ref. 30399], Page & Burr 2011:542 [ref. 31215], Layman & Mayden 2012:13 [ref. 32285], Page et al. 2013:138 [ref. 32708], Bagley et al. 2023:321 [ref. 41241], Page et al. 2023:199 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Etheostoma jessiae (Jordan & Brayton 1878). Percidae: Etheostomatinae. Distribution: North America: southern Virginia to northeastern Mississippi (southeastern U.S.A.) Habitat: freshwater.