kanawhae, Poecilichthys Raney [E. C.] 1941:6, Pl. 1 [Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan No. 434; ref. 13033] North Fork of New River on rt. 16 at Crumpler, Ashe County, North Carolina, U.S.A. Holotype: UMMZ 131837. Paratypes: CUMV 7663 (13), 7688 (5), 7693 (3); UMMZ 95371 (2), 131834-36 (2, 2, 2), 131838 (7); USNM 107679 (3). Type catalog: Collette & Knapp 1967:63-64 [ref. 20211]. •Valid as Poecilichthys kanawhae Raney 1941 -- (Lee et al. 1980:659 [ref. 22416], Page 1983:63 [ref. 22189]). •Valid as Etheostoma kanawhae (Raney 1941) -- (Kuehne & Barbour 1983:79 [ref. 38055], Jenkins & Burkhead 1994:824 [ref. 21581], Stauffer et al. 1995:301 [ref. 23376], Switzer & Wood 2002:450 [ref. 26023], Nelson et al. 2004:134 [ref. 27807], Scharpf 2008:27 [ref. 30399], Page & Burr 2011:547 [ref. 31215], Page et al. 2013:138 [ref. 32708], Stephens et al. 2014:544 [ref. 33552]). Current status: Valid as Etheostoma kanawhae (Raney 1941). Percidae: Etheostomatinae. Distribution: NorthAmerica: New River drainage (Virginia and North Carolina, U.S.A.). Habitat: freshwater.