olmstedi, Etheostoma Storer [D. H.] 1842:61, Pl. 5 (fig. 2) [Boston Journal of Natural History v. 4 (no. 1) (art. 7); ref. 18833] Connecticut River at Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A. Syntypes: MCZ 24781 [ex MCZ 151] (2). Type catalog: Collette & Knapp 1967:35 [ref. 20211]. •Synonym of Ehteostoma nigrum Rafinesque 1820 -- (Ross et al. 2001:480 [ref. 25978]). •Valid as Etheostoma olmstedi Storer 1842 -- (Lee et al. 1980:677 [ref. 22416], Kuehne & Barbour 1983:104 [ref. 38055], Page 1983:85 [ref. 22189], Chapleau & Pageau 1985 [ref. 14225], Smith 1986:331 [ref. 22186], McAllister 1990:144 [ref. 14674], Page & Burr 1991:292 [ref. 18983], Jenkins & Burkhead 1994:849 [ref. 21581], Stauffer et al. 1995:306 [ref. 23376], Murdy et al. 1997:220 [ref. 23144], Fuller et al. 1999:383 [ref. 25838], Nelson et al. 2004:134 [ref. 27807], Scharpf 2008:29 [ref. 30399] with subspecies, Page & Burr 2011:539 [ref. 31215] with 3 subspecies, Page et al. 2013:139 [ref. 32708], Robins et al. 2018:323 [ref. 35886] with 3 subspecies, MacGuigan et al. 2023:13 [ref. 40852], Page et al. 2023:200 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Etheostoma olmstedi Storer 1842. Percidae: Etheostomatinae. Distribution: North America: Quebec (Canada) and eastern-central U.S.A. Habitat: freshwater.